Stephen Chau

Co-Founder & CEO

2023 - Current

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Angel Investor and Advisor

2013

Investor and/or Advisor for some startups I love, led by founders I admire: All Day Kitchens (formerly Virtual Kitchen Co), Alto Pharmacy, Clubhouse, Faire, Houm, Lean, Magic Eden, Mill, Nelo, Nuro, Otter, Outgo, Pachama, Pepper, PermitFlow, The Pill Club, Pinwheel, Popshop Live, Statsig, TrueNorth, Zip and more

Sequoia Capital Scout

2018

Angel, Seed, Series A investor through Sequoia's scout program. Let me know if I can help with what you're building

Senior Director of Product Management

2014 - 2020

Head of product for Uber's new businesses (Uber Everything). Founding member of the team, started Uber Eats and scaled it to a $25 billion run rate business across over 6000 cities and 43 countries in 4 years

Entrepreneur in Residence

2014 - 2014

Senior Product Manager, Google Now

2012 - 2014

Product lead for Google Now's new features team. Launched new predictive Now cards, introduced Now to new clients such as the Android OS, Chrome, Android Wear and helped scale the product to hundreds of millions of monthly actives

Senior Product Manager, Google Maps

2006 - 2012

Led Google's early imagery, 3D and map data programs. Co-invented Street View, Google’s fastest growing product of 2008 and product of the year from Time Magazine, PC World and Scientific American

Manager, Corporate Development

2004 - 2006

Founding member of the team and responsible for all consumer acquisitions and investments. Closed 13 deals including Where2 (aka Google Maps), Keyhole (aka Google Earth) and Android

Analyst, Investment Banking

2002 - 2004

Advised technology companies on M&A and corporate finance transactions. Client team member for companies such as Microsoft and Apple Computer. Worked on the Google IPO

Director, Investments Division

2001 - 2002

While a student, managed the $9 million investment portfolio of a completely student-run campus enterprise

Software Engineer

2000 - 2000

Built the frontend of the first independent online investment advice platform, designed by William F. Sharpe (1990 Nobel Prize in Economics)