Tikue Anazodo

Co-Founder & CEO at Kudos

Chicago, Illinois

Overview 

Tikue Anazodo is the Co-Founder & CEO of Kudos in Chicago, Illinois, with a strong background in product management and entrepreneurship. Notable highlights include serving as a Group Product Manager at Affirm and a Lead Product Manager at Google, showcasing expertise in software development, program management, and agile methodologies.

Work Experience 

  • Co-Founder & CEO

    2021 - Current

    Kudos is an AI-powered wallet that makes every purchase effortless and rewarding.

Kudos provides an AI-powered smart wallet service that optimizes consumer rewards and benefits on purchase.

Raised $17,200,000.00 from Precursor Ventures, The Mini Fund, SV Angel, QED Investors, Patron, Newtype Ventures, Samsung NEXT, Four Cities Capital and Brian Kelly.

  • Group Product Manager

    2021 - 2021

    Product lead for the Affirm launch on Amazon.com

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.

  • Lead Product Manager

    2016 - 2021

    Product lead across a number of product areas over the years, including: Google Pay on web & APAC expansion for online consumer payments Emerging Markets @ YouTube Live Sports @ YouTube.

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.

  • Founder

    2016 - 2020

    Started a side business that designed, manufactured and sold cool wooden watches! https://www.instagram.com/antikwatches/

  • Product Manager

    2013 - 2016

    Metadata and content discovery experiences on the world's most widely deployed IPTV platform. (Previously known as Microsoft Mediaroom, an evolution of WebTV)

  • PM

    2013 - 2013

    Microsoft Mediaroom was acquired by Ericsson.

Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.

  • PM Intern

    2012 - 2012

Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.

  • PM Intern

    2011 - 2011

Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.

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