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Amy Yan

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Founder at Nowadays

Greater Seattle Area

FoundedNowadays · YC

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About

Amy Yan is the COO at Nowadays. She previously held strategy and operations roles at Google, Meta, and McKinsey & Company.

Founder at NowadaysYC S23

Intro paths

YC

Amy went through Y Combinator (Summer 2023) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.

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Their group partner at YC was Jared Friedman, YC Group Partner — the partner who ran Nowadays's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗

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Nowadays's investors · 16

Basis Set VenturesSan Francisco · $1M – $3M checks · since 2022Beyond ImpactLuxembourg · since 2022Cornucopian Capital ManagementMontclair · since 2022Decacorn CapitalSingapore · $300K – $600K checks · since 2022FAST — by GETTYLABSan Francisco · $100K checks · since 2022GaingelsNew York · $200K – $500K checks · since 2022Hike VenturesSan Francisco · $1M – $5M checks · since 2022Parallel VenturesLos Angeles · since 2022Selva VenturesLos Angeles · $100K – $5M checks · since 2022Stray Dog CapitalLeawood · $100K – $1M checks · since 2022Tenacious VenturesManly · $200K – $1M checks · since 2022The E14 FundCambridge · $1M – $5M checks · since 2022Underdog LabsSan Francisco · $5K – $1M checks · since 2022Unpopular VenturesMiami · $100K – $500K checks · since 2022VentureUssince 2022Y CombinatorSan Francisco · $500K checks · since 2023

Co-founders at Nowadays

ASAnna Sun
Anna SunFounder
AP
Anthony PutermanCofounder
JTJustin Tidwell
Justin TidwellCofounder

Experience

  1. NowadaysCo-Foundercurrent2023 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
  2. GoogleStrategy & Operations Program Manager, Global Acquisitions2022 — 2023San Francisco Bay Area
  3. GoogleStrategy & Operations Analyst, Global Acquisitions2020 — 2022Mountain View, California, United States
  4. Wise Ink Creative Publishing#1 Amazon Best-Selling Author2020 — 2023
  5. FacebookBusiness Operations Analyst, Facebook App2019 — 2020Menlo Park, CA
  6. GrouponBusiness Operations & Product Lead2018 — 2019Greater Chicago Area
  7. McKinsey & CompanyBusiness Analyst2016 — 2018Greater Atlanta Area
  8. The Johns Hopkins UniversityClass President2012 — 2016Baltimore, Maryland Area

Skills & more

Event PlanningStartups46Retreats37Offsites10Summits11Party Planning10SQL29Public Speaking36Microsoft Excel35Statistics30Biomedical Engineering25Engineering22
+9 moreData AnalysisPythonRMicrosoft OfficeMicrosoft PowerPointTeachingLeadershipMentoringCareer Development

Languages Chinese · English

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Who is Amy Yan?
Amy Yan is the COO at Nowadays. She previously held strategy and operations roles at Google, Meta, and McKinsey & Company.
Where does Amy Yan work?
Amy Yan is Founder of Nowadays.
What companies did Amy Yan found?
Amy Yan founded Nowadays.
Where did Amy Yan go to school?
Amy Yan studied at Y Combinator; The Johns Hopkins University (Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biomedical Engineering & Engineering Mechanics); Stanford Continuing Studies (STAT 05 W - Statistics for Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning).

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