Dan Hsiao
Co-Founder, CPO at Ambiguous
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Hsiao is a product-focused founder and operator with 12 years of experience building consumer and enterprise products that move metrics and delight users. He was an early consumer PM at Instacart where he co-created Curbside Pickup and the white‑label “Powered by Instacart” platform, and earlier helped launch Facebook Messages after joining via the FriendFeed acquisition. As Co-Founder and CPO of Ambiguous he now builds agentic AI coworkers that execute SOPs across email, Slack, and docs, pairing product-first thinking with applied ML workflows. He’s led product and engineering teams end-to-end—from prototyping frontend features as a hands-on engineer to negotiating partnerships like a Zillow pilot at Doorstead. An MIT Sloan MBA and UC Berkeley EECS graduate, he combines deep technical fluency with strong product intuition and a knack for turning repetitive operational work into scalable automation.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, BS Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyMBA, MBA at MIT Sloan School of Management
Github Skills (3)
chrome3
ios2
desktop2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
dhsiao/smarter-app-banner
Dec 2013 - Mar 2014
App Banner that works for iOS Chrome and desktop browsers
Contributions:7 commits in 3 months
browserschromeiosdesktopbanner
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