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“I can’t go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.” - Lewis Carroll
 

Take a moment. Settle in, perhaps with a cup of oolong tea at hand.
 

Everything I collect, everything I write, is fundamentally a letter to myself—reminders and reflections that I need to encounter. 

Who am I? For the past 10+ years, I've operated at the intersection of growth, partnerships, BD, marketing, and product. I build commercial models for technical products - launching programs, scaling ecosystems, and driving global top-line revenue. I was previously a product lead at Uber and DoorDash, invested in infra at a16z, now scaling Anthropic's startup motion.

 

I thrive where partnerships, product, and platform collide.

Early career: ML teams at Uber personalizing driver incentives, then launched DoorDash's white-label fulfillment platform (Drive)—which unlocked grocery, retail, and dark stores. Later, investing in devtools and infra a16z and spinning up PearX at Pear VC.

I think about humans as pre-trained agents - we ship with some initial programming, then fine-tune through experience. Even the precursors to humans ("ape") means both "primate" and " to imitate".

 

Culture is learned behavior; computing is evolving the same way. I want to keep that future open so ideas can cross-pollinate across disciplines, ideologies, and geographies.


If you're a founder, builder, or tinkerer drawn to collaboration and self-discovery, reach out!

Success for me every day is one where I helped a founder. 

 

© 2024 by Jo Zhu

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