Lili Montes
Co-Founder And CEO at UCSB Sigma Eta Pi
Huntington Beach, California, United States
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Top SchoolLili Montes is a founder-first CEO with 11 years of entrepreneurial experience, currently building Limon, an audio-first travel platform that blends creator storytelling with discovery. She leads strategy, fundraising, partnerships, and go-to-market, having raised $170K to date, secured national TV exposure, and grown an early-access waitlist of 900+ users. Her background in communication and technology (UC Santa Barbara, LSE) and years of iterative travel-product experiments—100+ user interviews, incubator mentorship, and multiple pre-Limon pivots—shaped Limon’s focus on authentic audio as the product differentiator. She pairs hands-on mobile development experience (iOS social sharing and OAuth integrations) with community-building roots from founding Young Founders OC, making her equally comfortable with product details and public narratives. Notably, she turned a high-school travel segment into a career-long obsession with storytelling, which now drives her vision to make travel feel like a conversation rather than a checklist.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Granada High SchoolBachelor of Arts - BA, Communication Major with a Technology Management Certificate, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Communication Major with a Technology Management Certificate at UC Santa BarbaraLondon School of Economics and Political Science
Spanish, English, Italian
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weibo10
swift10
wechat10
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qq10
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nixzhu/MonkeyKing
Oct 2015 - Jan 2019
MonkeyKing helps you to post messages to Chinese Social Networks.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:131 commits, 15 PRs, 97 pushes in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Lili primarily contributed to the project by implementing features related to sharing messages and handling OAuth flows for Chinese social networks. Their work involved modifying existing UI elements, integrating with external APIs, and managing data structures. The changes encompassed various aspects of the application, including text sharing, image sharing, and integration with platforms like WeChat, QQ, and Weibo. The contributions showcase the user's focus on developing mobile application functionalities and integrating with social media platforms.
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Limon-O-O/KingfisherExtension
Jun 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:38 commits, 3 PRs, 43 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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