Yu Chen
Fractional CPO | Co-Founder @Potluck Tech | ex-Googler
New York, New York
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$5,000.00Max Investment:
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Work Experience
2023
Co-Founder & Fractional CPO
2023
Fractional CTO/CPO and executive coaching firm founded by seasoned engineering and product leaders from Google and high-growth startups. 🥘 We help technology startups scale their PMF, and build products in a lean, iterative, and results-centric way. 🥘 We help technology scale-ups strengthen their technical teams through product, engineering, and leadership coaching.
Startup Mentor
2021
MIT Sandbox provides a unique combination of seed grants, mentorship, and tailored education to empower student innovators. They've invested $15MM in 4000+ startups, who've raised >$5B in follow up funding!
2020
Investor
2020
A group of angel investors who are ex-founders, operators at leading startups, and executives at major companies.
2021 - 2022
Member
2021 - 2022
A talent-dense community built for exploring your life's work at the 0-1 phase
2018 - 2020
Product Lead
2018 - 2020
Led product teams that scaled our educational platform to expand access and improve outcomes: • Launched 2 new business lines (Data Science, Online Cohorts) generating ~ 50% of Flatiron's revenue • Launched service-oriented features that increased staff productivity • Led team of 3 squads, including 3 product managers and 10 engineers
2010 - 2018
Technical Program Manager
2014 - 2018
Led engineering and operations teams that built products from concept to xxMM users & commercial sales. • Launched Accelerator in the Philippines & Thailand (YouTube edge cache device for emerging markets) • Expanded Google Station across India and Indonesia. (Google managed fiber backed Wifi hotspots)
Sr Partner Technology Manager
2010 - 2014
Google.org technical partnerships lead. Launched Crisis Response / Public Alerts across multiple international markets. Led team of 6 to drive Google Maps’ product and partnership success.
2009 - 2009
Summer Associate
2009 - 2009
Owned workstream that validated and expanded the strategic initiatives of a 10 year, $30 billion capital program management project for major utilities client.
2006 - 2008
Client Solutions Consultant
2006 - 2008
• Designed, staffed, and managed projects, and achieved clients’ performance improvement and reporting goals through customization of and training on Utopy software • Developed a 6-month call center efficiency plan to automate sales verification. Led project execution and delivery, and achieved 75% drop in sales verification cost for client • Led Sales Engineering efforts on demos, sales meetings, and pilots. Secured contracts with large online payment solutions provider, and major international fast food restaurant chain
2001 - 2006
Senior Research Engineer
2001 - 2006
EVITA (Extensible VoIce porTAl) project • Led four person engineering team to develop multi-lingual voice UI software. Pitched the speech gateway project based on our software to Singapore 2nd largest hospital. Project signed for SGD$700k and awarded “The Enterprise Challenge Innovator’s Award” by the Singapore Prime Minister’s office • Consulted for COO and Operations Managers on project scope, technical design, implementation, and training. Project was delivered on schedule and opened to public beta-testing. Sentence Boundary Detection Research • Led three person research team to detect sentence units in speech transcripts (for semantic analysis of speech recognition results). IBM Websphere Language Integration • Delivered En-SG package for IBM Websphere Voice Server. Collaborated with IBM teams in France and Australia.