Zachary Goldman

Co-Founder

4 yrs 4 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Founder of innovative demo environment startup.
  • Led significant AI product management at Microsoft.
  • Experience in full-stack development for healthcare solutions.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI product leader with a strong focus on user experience.

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About

Portal helps you create an agentic demo environment of your web product to convert for sales & user research. You get a link you can send or embed of a 10 minute shareable environment where users are already at your product's magic moment (logged in, pre-installed local files, guardrailed), with an optional AI agent to answer questions or run the demo. Folks are using Portal sandboxes to replace sales calls, augment user research, or convert during onboarding. Makeportals.com Personal site: goldmanzachary.com

Experience

4 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
10 mos
Average Tenure
9 mos
Current Experience

South park commons

Founder Fellow (F25)

Oct 2025 – Oct 2025 · 0 mo

  • Portfolio company, building the runtime for temporary, isolated, shareable software states in product sandboxes (.ptls).
  • Making every product instantly accessible & understable.

Odf

ODF26 Cohort

Sep 2025 – Sep 2025 · 0 mo

Portal

Founder

Aug 2025 – Present · 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Portal lets you send a shareable product demo environment of your website or code to get user feedback, qualify inbound demos, or convert in onboarding. An AI agent can give a demo & answer questions as users click around a safe sandbox. You get analytics.

South park commons

Member

Aug 2025 – Aug 2025 · 0 mo

Microsoft ai

Product Manager

Aug 2023 – May 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

  • Copilot evals & growth in the browser.
  • Helped turn Bingchat into Copilot, made it give better answers & load faster, then left to build a startup.
  • At Microsoft AI, I:
  • First PM in 2 years approved to run user research interviews personally & helped start a program upskilling PMs to run unbiased interviews, resulting in 40+ user studies.
  • Designed XXX+ Copilot evals & briefed MAI leaders daily as lead PM for a 10+ engineering/applied team for the entire browser org, improving latency, quality, health of Copilot in Microsoft Edge/Windows.
  • Ran Computer Use Agents competitive research, ran seminars on deep Copilot system architecture to 50+ architects/partners.
  • Led roadmap saving Edge Bar's auto-start with 7x retention.
  • Shipped consumer features (AI-based notification system, A/B testing core infrastructure across Microsoft AI, gaming features, growth new user retention).
  • Shipped demo pages & causal attribution tools of XXXM MAU surfaces.
  • Misc: Experimentation statistics champ: unblocked major Copilot launches & gave causal advice, personally pitched CEO on self-built SOTA computer use agent.
  • Left to democratize Computer Use in accessibility/nonprofits then scale a startup: https://zachsgold.substack.com/p/hi-to-6-in-3

Microsoft

Product Management Intern

May 2022 – Aug 2022 · 3 mos

  • Browser: Gaming, browser strategy, rewards.

Develop for good

Software Engineer

Feb 2022 – Jul 2022 · 5 mos

  • Tried out software engineering: Helped build a full-stack site for Somalian medical workers to monitor maternity visits through CARE International.

Deloitte digital

Technology Strategy Intern

Jun 2021 – Aug 2021 · 2 mos

  • Tried out consulting, then read Sprint Book & led partners through GV's design sprint exercise.

Rutgers blueprint

Product Manager

Aug 2020 – Oct 2021 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Tried out PM: led 14+ engineering/design/marketing incubator team building a course review site reaching 700+ students in 3 days.

Rutgers university leadership & learning office

Retreat Leader & User Researcher

May 2020 – Aug 2020 · 3 mos

  • Tried out user research, leading events, and being a counselor for the 3rd time.

Givner law group

Research & Law Intern

Jul 2019 – Aug 2019 · 1 mo

  • Tried out law.

Broward health medical center

Pre-med Shadow

May 2019 – Jul 2019 · 2 mos

  • Tried out medicine.

Congressman josh gottheimer (nj-5)

Congressional Intern

Jul 2018 – Aug 2018 · 1 mo

  • Tried out politics.

Education

Rutgers University–New Brunswick

Bachelor's degree

Jan 2019 – Jan 2023

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