Zi

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

2025 — PresentPalo 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)

Built the growth loop into the product: the cited-review corpus generates 170 acquisition video ads per week at $0.11 per generation run.

Timeless

2019 — 2024Palo 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.

Google

2006 — 2015Mountain View, CA

Product, Product Marketing, Engineering

Senior Product Marketing Manager · Android2009 — 2014

Android's brand doctrine: co-architected the counter-positioning around openness and choice as the ecosystem scaled to 18K device models.
380K developers engaged: directed the Android Developer portal and SDK GTM kit; co-designed Google I/O keynote messaging.
9 OEMs, 7 carriers: ran partner co-marketing for 4 years — pitch assets, frontline battlecards, social, and interactive retail merchandising.
7 Nexus launches, 120 countries: directed 16 global PMMs and tiered launch waves by product readiness across direct-to-consumer releases.
Defined “Pure Google”: positioned Nexus as Android's reference implementation and made it the benchmark for stock Android across 25M Nexus devices.
10 OS releases, 1B activations: led global marketing campaigns and owned design, creative, and art direction from Cupcake through Lollipop.