About
Yi Zhong held product leadership roles at Meta, Microsoft, and Dropbox, working on large-scale AI systems deployment.
Founder at Besimple AIYC X25
Intro paths
YC
Yi went through Y Combinator (Spring 2025) — any YC alum in your network can reach them through the YC community.
GP
Their group partner at YC was Nicolas Dessaigne, General Partner at Y Combinator — the partner who ran Besimple AI's batch and knows the company first-hand. YC profile ↗
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In turn, Yi can intro founders to Besimple AI's investors below.
Besimple AI's investors · 3
Co-founders at Besimple AI
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Bill WangFounder
Experience
- Besimple AICo-Foundercurrent2025 — presentSan Francisco Bay Area
- MetaProduct Manager2020 — 2025Menlo Park, California, United States
- DropboxProduct Manager2019 — 2020Seattle, Washington
- MicrosoftProduct Manager2016 — 2019Greater Seattle Area
- MicrosoftProgram Manager Intern - Windows Devices Group2015Redmond, WA
- SiemensMechanical Engineering Intern2014Mülheim, Germany
- MITResearch Assistant2013
Skills & more
Matlab7R1Stata1Microsoft PowerPoint2PythonTeamwork5Writing2Artificial Intelligence (AI)1Statistics12Research11Rapid Prototyping3Program Management2
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Product Design3D ModelingPaintingUser-centered DesignMachine LearningProduct DevelopmentData MiningApache SparkLanguages Cantonese · English · Mandarin
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Yi Zhong?
- Yi Zhong held product leadership roles at Meta, Microsoft, and Dropbox, working on large-scale AI systems deployment.
- Where does Yi Zhong work?
- Yi Zhong is Founder of Besimple AI.
- What companies did Yi Zhong found?
- Yi Zhong founded Besimple AI.
- Where did Yi Zhong go to school?
- Yi Zhong studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering).
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