JZ

Jo Zhu

Startups @ 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

  • 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.

2023 - 2024

  • Head of PearX

    2023 - 2024

    Leading PearX and partnering with founders building from zero to one.

2021 - 2023

  • Partner

    2021 - 2023

    Investing in early stage investments in dev tools, crypto, and infra startups.

2020 - 2021

  • Co-Founder

    2020 - 2021

    Replace phone screens with AI short form video - YC W20 https://www.ycdb.co/company/stryve

2018 - 2020

  • Group Product Manager, New Verticals

    2019 - 2020

    Led non-restaurant verticals (grocery, retail, pharma) from 0 to 10M+ in annual deliveries through Walmart and Albertsons partnerships, developing enterprise integrations and APIs to enable Fortune 500 adoption of DoorDash's API platform.

  • Senior Product Manager, API Platform

    2018 - 2019

    Launched the DoorDash Drive API Platform enabling retailers to integrate white-label delivery capabilities from 1 million+ active Dashers into their own apps, building infrastructure including pricing, dispatch optimization, and scheduling for enterprise users.

2014 - 2018

  • Product Manager, Driver Pricing

    2016 - 2018

    Led global product team to launch automated driver incentive programs, applying advanced ML and economics modeling to optimize $2B in promotional spend while building infrastructure to align driver supply with demand forecasts and ensure timely payments.

  • Product Operations Lead, Marketplace

    2015 - 2016

    Managed global driver incentive launches across 700+ cities, orchestrating cross-functional teams to deploy automated promotions while developing user journey mapping tools and reporting systems that integrated customer behavior analytics to improve accuracy in user account decisions.

  • US Regional Operations, Risk

    2014 - 2015

    Focus was on driver supply optimization and fraud prevention across rider and driver ecosystems. Developed and deployed advanced fraud detection systems targeting chargebacks, account takeovers, driver incentive abuse, and geolocation manipulation while establishing standardized risk frameworks throughout the user journey.