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Pace is the new online talk club
Talks about online talk club, live talk community and mental health
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Jack Chou
Founder of Pace
Mill Valley, California
Overview
Jack Chou is the Co-founder and CEO of Pace, a company specializing in online advertising and product management. With a background that includes leadership roles at Affirm, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and Google, Jack has a proven track record of success in building and growing innovative tech companies.
Highlights of Jack's career include serving as Chief Product Officer at Affirm and Head of Product at Pinterest, demonstrating his expertise in product management and leadership. Currently, as the CEO of Pace, Jack continues to drive the company's success by leveraging his skills in online advertising, SaaS, and strategic partnerships.
Work Experience
Co-Founder and CEO
2020 - Current
Pace is the app for online talk groups. Members join and host live video groups to open up and find their people. Pace is invite-only with thousands currently on the waitlist. Download the app at http://pace.group
Pace provides online peer support groups to give and receive support, therapy for diagnosed conditions like addiction or depression.
Raised $50,900,000.00 from Sequoia Capital, BoxGroup, BoxGroup, Pace Capital, Sequoia Capital and Pace Capital.
Board Member
2022
240 student, Kindergarten through 8th Grade independent school in Mill Valley, California.
Chief Product Officer
2018 - 2019
Led an amazing team of product managers, creatives, designers, and product marketers to define and build Affirm's products and brand.
Head of Product
2017 - 2018
Affirm is a financial technology services company that offers installment loans to consumers at the point of sale.
Raised $2,020,000,000.00 from PGIM Fixed Income.
Head of Product
2014 - 2017
Led product at Pinterest. Headed up Product, Growth, Analytics, and International teams that built Pinterest and grew it to hundreds of millions of users around the globe. Originally joined the company leading Search, Recommendations, and Discovery products.
Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
Raised $1,486,100,000.00 from Elliott Investment Management and Elliott Investment Management.
Founder
2012 - 2014
Startup founder. Built a number of web and mobile products, including Hiplist (local discovery) and Wisepatch (a personal experts network), everything design-to-deploy.
Head of Product, Marketing Solutions
2010 - 2012
Led the Marketing Solutions business (2011: $155.9m), one of LinkedIn’s three revenue lines. Was one of the first Monetization PMs at LinkedIn. Responsible for product and general management of LinkedIn Ads (self-service advertising), including starting the product, building the team and product, and then growing it from $0 to a key business for LinkedIn.
Group Product Manager
2008 - 2010
Product Manager
2007 - 2008
Find Jobs, Internships, and volunteer openings for teen students!
Online Sales & Operations
2006 - 2007
Worked on AdSense as an advocate for the publisher experience across the business, helping to design and launch features and products. Managed operational roll-out of numerous features. Made friends. Ate good food. Products included: AdSense Front-End, CPA Advertising / Referrals, AdSense for Mobile Content.
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.
Product Manager
2004 - 2006
Researched, designed, drove, and led new features and enhancements for the Customer Data Management team. Products included: Oracle Trading Community Architecture, Customer Data Hub, Customers Online.
Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Co-Founder
2001 - 2002
With two friends, started a small consulting firm that designed, built, and maintained websites for a number of health and tribal services organizations in rural Northwest Alaska.
Education
B.S.
2000 - 2004