Tao Huang is a product and founder leader with 16 years of experience building consumer products and teams that scale to hundreds of millions of users. As Co-Founder of Easybiz and former Director of Product at Meituan and Zhihu, he led major growth initiatives—helping Meituan surpass 100M DAU and growing Zhihu from 300K to 80M users—by combining data-driven experimentation with product-led platform design. He has deep expertise in search, recommendation and ecosystem integration, having revamped WeChat Search and scaled WeChat mini-programs and Meituan’s multi-service app frameworks. Tao pairs hands-on technical fluency from early full-stack engineering work with strong product operations skills, including building analytics, A/B testing and automated dashboards. Now based in San Jose, he’s focused on startup opportunities at the intersection of AI and retail, bringing both operator grit and a history of creating industry-standard products. An unexpected strength: he consistently turns measurement and infrastructure investments into new business lines and measurable revenue uplifts.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Mathematics, Bachelor of Science Mathematics at Peking University
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