Wendy Lu is a seasoned engineering and product leader with 12 years of experience building AI, commerce, and B2C products from early launches to scale. She has led cross-functional teams at Pinterest and Airtable, helping grow advertiser and merchant products to ~$1B revenue and steering AI, platform, and growth orgs as interim GM. As a founder she bootstrapped a voice-AI startup serving top frontier labs and a decacorn, and later invested in and advised startups through roles at Emergence Capital and as an angel. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic, she blends hands-on technical chops with investor-side perspective to guide product and developer-focused AI initiatives. A former national-team athlete and Stanford CS graduate, she brings disciplined team-building and a competitive drive that shows up in both product metrics and fundraising outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Mission San Jose High School
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Stanford University
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