Catheryn Li

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States7 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Co-founded a successful AI startup.
Led product development at Y Combinator.
Built platforms that matched hundreds of co-founders.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused product leader with strong software development expertise.

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Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementSoftware Development

Other Skills

Web DevelopmentProduct DevelopmentPythonJavaScriptLeadershipData AnalysisResearchMicrobiologyGeneticsPianoAlgorithmsComputer ScienceObjective-CJavaSwift

Experience

7 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 11 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Simple ai

Co-Founder & CEO

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

Simple AI is building super realistic AI phone agents for enterprises. We help iconic businesses like Omaha Steaks and Doordash automate phone operations spanning sales and support. We help you deploy robust, secure agents in weeks, not months.

Web DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentProduct DevelopmentProduct ManagementPythonJavaScript

Y combinator

2 roles

Head of Product - Pre-Batch

Promoted

Dec 2021 – Dec 2023 · 2 yrs

I lead product & engineering for the Pre-Batch team at YC. We build products designed to inspire and educate future founders, including Startup School, the YC Startup Library and Co-Founder Matching :)

Product DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentLeadershipProduct Management

Product Engineer

Mar 2020 – Nov 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos

I built the YC Co-Founder Matching platform! https://www.ycombinator.com/cofounder-matching
We've made hundreds of thousands of matches over 100,000 profiles, and YC has funded 59 teams to date which met through co-founder matching.
I also built the YC Startup Library (ycombinator.com/library) and helped launch Startup School the MOOC (startupschool.org) as well as the YC mobile app.

Web DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentProduct Development

Facebook

Software Engineer

Aug 2018 – Feb 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos · Menlo Park, CA

I spent a year on the core FB news feed team, where features I built saw millions of weekly active users. I built the sharing experience in the new Facebook.com web redesign, and worked on the new composer and stories.
I then spent 4 months at Instagram Stories, where I wrote the backend for a bunch of create modes and stickers.

Software DevelopmentWeb DevelopmentData Analysis

Mit media lab

Undergraduate Researcher

Feb 2018 – Jun 2018 · 4 mos · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

I studied collective intelligence in the Human Dynamics group under Alex Sandy Pentland.

ResearchMicrobiologyGenetics

Quora

Software Engineering Intern

Jun 2017 – Aug 2017 · 2 mos · Mountain View, CA

I grew user engagement and new writer activation with system Ask-2-Answers for appropriate candidates and digest push notifications.

Software DevelopmentData Analysis

Quizlet, inc.

Software Engineering Intern

Mar 2017 – May 2017 · 2 mos · San Francisco

I built part of the core Learn experience on web. This used spaced repetition and combined different types of questions with tiered difficulty to improve learning efficiency for students.

Software DevelopmentWeb Development