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Zi

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AI Builder, Designer, 0-to-1 GTM

Mountain View, CA

Product leader with ten years at Google across PM, product marketing, and engineering, plus a decade of building and commercializing products as a founder. Five 0-to-1 products: Glow ($1M in sales, acquired), Timeless (1.5M users), and three AI products: Yeah, Atomic, and Halftime. Hands-on from user research through AI development and eval-gated releases.

Core Product Development · Product Strategy & Prioritization · Growth & Retention Loops · User & Market Research · Model Selection & Eval-Gated Releases · Agentic Development · Hardware & Platform GTM

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Experience

Still in Love

Palo Alto, CA

AI Product Builder

Co-founded an AI product studio, building with ex-Googlers and Stanford OVAL. Runs agentic development across 12 models tiered by capability and risk; keeps development sandboxed from production and gates releases on shadow traffic, daily evals, and human-approved rollouts.

YeahRotten Tomatoes for YouTube reviews (running shoes as a proof of concept)
  • Defined the product around a 30-second decision: distilled 4,516 review videos into 26,056 source-linked claims across 3,442 SKUs, so a buyer gets a buy, skip, or consider verdict at a glance.
AtomiciOS voice journal that compounds intent
  • Day-7 retention +18%: on-device intent routing cut capture friction and time-to-first-token by 90 ms, so users speak instead of picking a skill or model; shipped in 163 TestFlight builds.
HalftimeCollege planning for students and families
  • Conducted 15 weeks of user research with Palo Alto students and parents on college-application anxiety; shaped the product around preserving students' own voices amid AI essay generation.
  • $4,000 saved per family: piloted with five Bay Area families for the 2026–2027 admissions cycle, displacing consultant and essay-coaching spend.

Timeless

Palo Alto, CA

Co-Founder & CEO

  • 150K installs in two weeks: launched a smart-contract wallet through community-led distribution, supported by an X following of 110K, grown through 82 live podcasts; the wallet reached 980K transactions.

Quantum Bakery

Menlo Park, CA

Founder & CEO

  • $530K on Kickstarter in 7 days: invented Glow laser headphones with Corning; reached $1M in sales and 30K units sold before the product was acquired.
  • Brought Glow to mass production: led hardware design through EVT/DVT/PVT cycles.

Google

Mountain View, CA

Product, Product Marketing, Engineering

Head of Product · ACME Lab2014 — 2015

  • Co-founded an ambient-computing R&D lab at Google X with $20M of internal funding, after presenting gaze-based HCI on Google Glass to the L-Team (Page, Rubin, Pichai, Arora).
  • Deployed in 4 pilot retail stores: co-designed an early spatial-intelligence platform fusing far-field microphone arrays, BLE beacons, and LiDAR for real-time scene understanding.
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