Jack Chou
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San Francisco Bay Area
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Min Investment:
$100,000.00Max Investment:
$5,000,000.00Target Investment:
$1,500,000.00
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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.
2001 - 2002
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.