JC

Jack Chou

🚶🏻🏃🏻‍♂️

San Francisco Bay Area

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Education

Work Experience

  • Founder & CEO

    2024

    Headspace acquired Supertalk in Feb 2025. Working on AI at Headspace.

2020 - 2024

  • Founder & CEO

    2020 - 2024

    Live video mental health groups over the internet. Started mid-COVID, Pace was supported by Sequoia Capital, Pace Capital, and incredible angel investors. We brought together 1,000s of real humans across 10,000s of live video sessions with incredible facilitators. We wound down the Pace app and platform in May 2024 and returned remaining capital to investors. Read more about it: - Start: https://linkedin.com/pulse/why-mental-health-everyone-we-started-pace-jack-chou/ - Middle: https://sequoiacap.com/article/partnering-with-pace-keeping-pace-in-mental-health/ - End: https://linkedin.com/pulse/why-pace-meant-something-long-live-groups-jack-chou-rhifc/

2017 - 2019

  • Chief Product Officer

    2018 - 2019

    Led an amazing team of product managers, creatives, designers, and product marketers to define and build Affirm's products and brand.

  • Head of Product

    2017 - 2019

2014 - 2017

  • Head of Product

    2014 - 2017

    Led product at Pinterest. Headed up Product, Growth, Analytics, and International teams that built Pinterest and grew it to hundreds of millions of users around the globe. Originally joined the company leading Search, Recommendations, and Discovery products.

2012 - 2014

  • Founder

    2012 - 2014

    Startup founder. Built and explored consumer products, didn't find product-market fit. Web and mobile products, including Hiplist (local discovery) and Wisepatch (a personal experts network), everything design-to-deploy.

2007 - 2012

  • Head of Product, Marketing Solutions

    2010 - 2012

    Led the Marketing Solutions business (2011: $155.9m), one of LinkedIn’s three revenue lines. Was one of the first Monetization PMs at LinkedIn. Responsible for product and general management of LinkedIn Ads (self-service advertising), including starting the product, building the team and product, and then growing it from $0 to a key business for LinkedIn.

  • Group Product Manager

    2008 - 2010

  • Product Manager

    2007 - 2008

2006 - 2007

  • Online Sales & Operations

    2006 - 2007

    Worked on AdSense as an advocate for the publisher experience across the business, helping to design and launch features and products. Managed operational roll-out of numerous features. Made friends. Ate good food. Products included: AdSense Front-End, CPA Advertising / Referrals, AdSense for Mobile Content.

2004 - 2006

  • Product Manager

    2004 - 2006

    Researched, designed, drove, and led new features and enhancements for the Customer Data Management team. Products included: Oracle Trading Community Architecture, Customer Data Hub, Customers Online.

  • Co-Founder

    2001 - 2002

    With two friends, started a small consulting firm that designed, built, and maintained websites for a number of health and tribal services organizations in rural Northwest Alaska.