About
Jessie Young is the founder and CEO of Cakework, which provides APIs for serverless code hosting across developer platforms.
Founder at CakeworkYC W23
Intro paths
YC
Jessie went through Y Combinator (Winter 2023) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
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Their group partner at YC was Diana Hu, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Cakework's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Jessie can intro founders to Cakework's investors below.
Cakework's investors · 1
Co-founders at Cakework
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Eric ChenFounder
Experience
- EventualSoftware Engineer2025San Francisco, California, United States
- CakeworkCo-founder2022 — 2024San Francisco, California, United States
- Preemptive AI - Allen Institute for AI (AI2)Senior Software Engineer2021 — 2022Seattle, Washington, United States
- AmazonProduct Manager2019 — 2021Seattle, Washington, United States
- AmazonSoftware Engineer II2015 — 2019Greater Seattle Area
- AmazonSoftware Engineer2013 — 2015Greater Seattle Area
- Infinite Biomedical TechnologiesSoftware Engineer Intern2011 — 2012Washington DC-Baltimore Area
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Jessie Young?
- Jessie Young is the founder and CEO of Cakework, which provides APIs for serverless code hosting across developer platforms.
- Where does Jessie Young work?
- Jessie Young is Founder of Cakework.
- What companies did Jessie Young found?
- Jessie Young founded Cakework.
- Where did Jessie Young go to school?
- Jessie Young studied at The Johns Hopkins University (B.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering); Saratoga High School.
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