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Locations:
Min Investment:
$500,000.00Max Investment:
$40,000,000.00Target Investment:
$20,000,000.00
Skills
Education
Lists including Yoko
Work Experience
2022
Partner (AI & Infra Investment)
2022
yli@a16z.com Pre-seed - series B: Developer Tools, Creativity Tools, Infrastructure, AI Partner to: - Clerk (seed) - Inngest (seed) - Mintlify (series A) - Resend (series A) - Upstash - Stainless (series A) - Nrwl/Nx (seed, A) - Svix (seed) - Beeps (seed) - Arcjet (seed) -...
2025
Board Member
2025
2025
Board Observer
2025
Photography reimagined with AI - preserve identity, context and realism https://www.photalabs.com/
2024
Board Member
2024
2024
Board Observer
2024
2023
Board Observer
2023
2022
Board Observer
2022
2019
Cartoonist
2019
Cartoons about tech, culture, cooking, and many behind-the-scenes stories. More cartoons at https://yoko.dev/ and https://twitter.com/stuffyokodraws I'm working on a book about Asian cooking, culture, and personal stories. Reach out if you are interested to share your stories or just want to chat!
2021 - 2022
Product Lead
2021 - 2022
Product lead, Terraform Cloud infrastructure lifecycle management. OSS commercialization. Developer-focused product GTM Reach out if you want to chat about Terraform, Terraform Cloud, and the IaC space in general!
Senior Product Manager
2021 - 2022
Led product focusing on the cloud native enterprises on Terraform Cloud
2017 - 2021
Product Management
2019 - 2021
- Product vision + roadmap + specs for a DevOps-centric product with a technical platform - Product positioning, sales strategy and GTM - Supporting customers - Growth experimentation on the platform product - Published blog posts on several technical subjects to drive engagement - Drew comic white papers for product marketing
Senior Software Engineer/Founding Engineer
2017 - 2019
- Built various dev-centric platform services using Reactjs, Java, Terraform, Typescript - Built and maintained growth ETL pipeline with various AWS services - DevOps tooling and managing infrastructure