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Yu Chen
Founder of Potluck Tech
New York, New York
Overview
Yu Chen is a Fractional CPO and Co-Founder at Potluck Tech, with a background as an ex-Googler. With experience at Google as a Senior Partner Technology Manager and a Technical Program Manager, Yu has a strong foundation in technology and product development, and is actively involved in the startup ecosystem through roles like Startup Mentor at MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund Program and Founding Member at ANGELS.vc.
Work Experience
Co-Founder
2023 - Current
Fractional CTO/CPO firm founded by "seasoned" engineering and product leaders from Google and high-growth startups. 🥘 We help early-stage startups build products in a lean, iterative, and customer-centric way and reach PMF. 🥘 We help scale-up companies strengthen and grow their technical teams through functional and leadership coaching, and customized development workshops.
Startup Mentor
2021
MIT Sandbox provides a unique combination of seed funding, mentorship, and tailored entrepreneurship education to empower student innovators.
MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund Program offers seed funding for student-initiated entrepreneurship ideas.
Founding Member
2020
Modern, women-led community of accredited founder/operator angel investors.
Investor
2020
Member
2021 - 2022
South Park Commons is a fund and community of technologists dedicated to helping each other explore, learn, and go from -1 to 0.
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
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.
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
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.
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
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.