Skip to content
YUQI HOU
home
writing
work
speaking
about
☾
The road
san francisco · 2026: A novel about San Francisco founders. Author. Drafting now.
mountain view · 2026: GMI Cloud. Developer Community & Events · Mountain View. GTM, growth, community and partnerships: 64 events hosted in 2026, 10K+ monthly active developers.
san francisco · 2026: Startup accelerator (SCALE at GMI). Startup Program Lead, supported by NVIDIA. An equity-free accelerator: 25 startups in cohort 01, 54% activated.
washington, d.c. · 2025: The 6-Month Rebuild Experiment. Substack + YouTube series, rebuilding in public with receipts
washington, d.c. · 2024: Freelance growth. 1M+ content impressions (5.4% CTR) and IRL community events with 4+ organizations, 50+ people each: Tech x Creatives in D.C., a Harvard x MIT alumni mixer, and Americana in London. Plus livestreams for my YouTube community.
paris → london · 2022: Jellysmack. Senior AI Product Manager, London (feb 2023 – apr 2024): GTM and launch for the JellyX AI assistant. Senior Product Manager, Paris & Maryland (apr 2022 – feb 2023): positioning for creator financing, part of a $500M creator program.
maryland · 2021: Satire & short fiction. Points in Case, Slackjaw, The Belladonna, Robot Butt, Greener Pastures, Widget, Feign Lit, Small World City
new york · 2016: Goldman Sachs. API Product Manager (2019–22): scaled the Data API platform and launched a two-sided data marketplace. Developer Advocate (2017–19). Program Manager, Technology Division (2016–17). New York.
new york · 2012: Internships. Goldman Sachs, mobile UX (2015) · BNY Mellon, UX design (2014) · Akamai, customer success (2014) · AmerisourceBergen, now Cencora, mobile (2013) · Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, assistant to the executive director (2012)
cambridge · 2011: Harvard University. B.A. Statistics. Rebuilt The Harvard Advocate’s website (Django + Stripe), which processed $65K+ in donations and subscriptions, and made iCare at Comedy Hack Day at the MIT Media Lab.
kansas city · 2008: Girls Grant Project & Women’s Foundation of Greater KC. Mentor, then board member. Allocated $10K a year to programs for girls’ career development with a team of 29. Where the community thing started.