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New York, United States

AAPI professionals in corporate leadership? The numbers are bleak. We're the least likely group to be promoted to management. That's not just unfair. That's a massive waste of talent. Enter Lunar Accel. They're not waiting for permission to fix this. They're building the solution themselves. - Mentorship for early career Asian American professionals.

Finding great engineers for your startup is hard enough. Finding ones who are smart, emotionally intelligent, AND can mentor your junior team? That's like finding a unicorn riding another unicorn. Here's what most companies do: - Post on job boards. Wait. Hope. - Pay recruiters 15-20% of salary - Interview dozens of candidates - Still end up with someone.

PM on Facebook Groups Led product for public groups which connect 400M+ people everyday to the interests, people, and communities they care most about, without barriers. Incubated a new product experience in FB Groups to millions of people.

Delightful government software? Sounds like an oxymoron. Imagine how much better digital government services could be if it was built by people who actually cared about technology and user experience. That's what the team at FSH is doing. Building affordable, genuinely delightful workflow tools for schools, courts, municipalities, and more. I wrote a tiny.

Founder Coach: Work with early-stage startup founders (primarily venture backed) to navigate growth challenges, maintain momentum post-accelerator, and scale themselves as leaders. Startup Veteran: Leverage experience founding 3 startups and working as a PM at Etsy and Facebook to provide relevant, tactical guidance that bridges the gap between therapy and.

Joined Facebook via acquisition of Midgame. Lead product across multiple teams on knowledge and productivity tools that serve both internal and external users including: 🔒 Secure content repository / private wiki used by tens of thousands of Facebook content moderations, support agents, and sales teams. Expanded on the intial product to serve additional.

New York City + San Francisco

April 2020. COVID lockdowns everywhere. My best friend Bilal Mahmood and I had just exited our tech startups. People were struggling. Communities were struggling. Businesses were struggling. We felt like we had to do something. Here's the thing though... We'd both started non-profits before. We'd donated to plenty of causes. But this time? We wanted to do.

Greater New York City Area

Midgame is an intelligent voice assistant for gamers and esports teams. We worked with dozens of leading collegiate and professional gaming teams and enhanced the gaming experience for players. Investors include Betaworks, Amazon’s Alexa Fund, Techstars, and the former head of Microsoft Cortana. Acquired by Facebook in 2020

The Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF) program was established by the White House in 2012 to attract top innovators into government, capable of tackling issues at the convergence of technology, policy, and process. The PIF Foundation is a 501(c)3 organization established to support and advance the PIF program, drive innovation in the US government, and.

Greater New York City Area

Headlight is a performance hiring platform. We develop software, assessments, and tournaments to help employers find, screen, and recruit talent. Headlight was acquired by Woven, a developer hiring platform.

Greater New York City Area

Re-examining how we identify and cultivate human potential with The Talent Playbook (http://talentplaybook.co) The TED Residency program is an incubator for breakthrough ideas. Residents are chosen via a semiannual competitive application and spend fourteen weeks at TED headquarters in New York City, working on their ideas. Although some may produce an.

The Asian American Man Study a national survey of the experiences and beliefs of American men of East, Southeast, and South Asian descent. Our findings have appeared in The Atlantic, NBC Asian America, Vox, and Quartz, and has reached over 100,000 people on Medium. Over 1000 Asian men have been surveyed since our founding in 2015. Jason has shared his.

Brooklyn, NY

Build products to support & grow the 1.5M active sellers on Etsy's global marketplace. Projects included Shop Updates (marketing tool to connect customers with the human side of sellers), Sell on Etsy mobile app on Android, iOS, and Inventory Management (massive overhaul of seller tooling to support professional seller needs around variations and.

Greater New York City Area

Percolate is a technology company building the system of record for marketing. Founded in 2011, we serve scores of Fortune 500 clients around the world and are backed by Sequoia and First Round Capital. I build compelling technology and lead-gen products to drive awareness and adoption of our world-class marketing platform among our enterprise and.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

The Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF) program was created by the White House under the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and pairs top innovators from the private sector, non-profits, and academia with top innovators in government to collaborate during focused 6-13 month “tours of duty” to develop solutions that can save lives, save.

Write about business, technology, and culture for publications with numerous bylines in TechCrunch, Fast Company, and Vox. My posts on Medium have a combined 800k+ views. Speak and teach at conferences and events on topics like gaming & esports, product management, entrepreneurship, talent development, and leadership. Since 2012, I've spoken on four.

San Francisco

Ridejoy was a community marketplace for long-haul rideshare. We helped over 45,000 people share city-to-city rides across the US and Canada and to great events like Coachella, Maker Faire, and Burning Man. Deeply involved in product, user acquisition and partnerships. Ridejoy was cofounded by myself, Kalvin Wang and Randy Pang, funded by Y Combinator in.

isocket is a technology platform designed to simplify guaranteed media sales, and one of the first companies to facilitate the programmatic buying of direct, guaranteed display ad inventory. It was acquired by Rubicon Project in 2014. I headed our customer acquisition efforts and grew our publisher base by 16.6x and total revenues by 10.5x through in.

I worked full time to manage the staff, operations & financial performance ($740k revenue in ‘09) for Stanford's independently incorporated newspaper. We battled an economic downturn and brutal industry-wide revenue declines by overhauling financial operations, restructuring the sales team, launching print and email marketing campaigns and building sales.

Started a nonprofit with some friends at Stanford. Our mission was to engage students with microfinance and entrepreneurship to help fight global poverty. Ran entrepreneurial competitions at dozens of high school and college campuses, helped fund over 800 microfinance loans to members of the working poor in developing nations. Caught the startup bug and.

Captain of the 2009 Division 1 NCAA championship-winning team - our first title in 14 years. Was a recruited scholarship athlete and trained over 20 hrs/wk, year-round. Achieved 9th place ranking in the all-around in 2006. Suffered a total knee dislocation that required surgeries in 2007. Made a huge recovery and team reached #1 ranking in 2008 and closed.

Bachelors & Masters Of Science, Biology

Ridejoy (Summer 2011)