JZ

Jo Zhu

Growth @ Anthropic

San Francisco, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $25,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $10,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $5,000,000.00

Work Experience

2024

  • Head of Growth & Partnerships - Startups

    2024

    Anthropic builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. If you are a founder building at the forefront of AI and want access to test the latest Anthropic models, ping me at jo@anthropic.com.

2022 - 2024

  • Head of PearX

    2022 - 2024

    Leading PearX and partnering with founders building from zero to one. We customize PearX for every company and are hyper selective with our pre-seed investments (less than 1% acceptance rate). Post Demo Day, 87%+ of companies in each cohort raise from tier 1 institutional investors and multistage funds.

2021 - 2022

  • Partner

    2021 - 2022

    Led research and due diligence for early-stage investments in consumer, crypto, developer tools + opensource startups, and helped develop product spec for a16z’s accelerator program – CSX (Crypto Startup Accelerator)

2018 - 2021

  • Product Lead, New Verticals

    2019 - 2021

    PM Lead for Non-Restaurants Product Offerings (Grocery, Retail, Pharma, Microfulfillment). Launched from 0 to 650,000 weekly grocery deliveries with Walmart and Albertsons partnership. Working directly with the senior management team and engineering to integrate DoorDash Drive (API for white label fulfillment) by building new integrations (shopper API, multi-routing, substitution logic, events API, identity microservices for pharma, HIPPA + GDPR, etc) to enable enterprise 3PL adoption.

  • Senior Product Manager, API Platform

    2018 - 2019

    Launched DoorDash Drive API Platform where retailers can fulfill local delivery orders placed through their own app or website by integrating into our network of 1 million+ monthly active Dashers. Product development includes the build out of the API infrastructure (white-label dispatch optimization, pricing models, scheduling + alerting, and delivery-as-a-service) for Fortune 500 companies.

2015 - 2018

  • Product Manager, Driver Pricing

    2016 - 2018

    Led product team to experiment and launch automated driver incentives (Consecutive Trips Boost & Build Your Own Quest) across 700+ cities globally. Platform development includes advanced economics modeling and machine learning to optimize $2B of global driver promotions spend. Focus was on strengthening our infrastructure and incentive models to ensure that supply forecasts are optimally positioned relative to demand predictions while making sure drivers are always paid on time.

  • Product Operations Lead, Marketplace

    2015 - 2016

    Managed global launches for driver incentives and mobilization of cross-functional teams (Eng, Data Science, Ops, S&P, Support, Marketing, Legal, Policy) to experiment and launch automated promotions across 700+ cities globally Built comprehensive review tools to help operations and support teams track a user’s account history and help them map user behavior stats with inbound support tickets to identify whether a customer had been incorrectly flagged (for fraud, promotions, bans, etc.)

  • US Regional Operations Lead, Risk & Fraud

    2015 - 2015

    Managed US regional operations strategy across driver supply & risk management. Created custom queries to scope attack vectors and deployed fraud rules to identify rider (chargebacks, ATO, account duplication, 2FA, new promotion abuse) and driver fraud (phishing, incentive abuse, instant pay + fare inflation, geolocation spoofing and app tampering prevention) and standardized abuse framework and implemented risk checks at multiple points across the user lifecycle.