Maria ZhangFounder

United States - Palo Alto, California

I believe in the power of software to change people's lives. Great software is a change agent; it has the power to make people infinitely more productive, to entertain them, to free them with information, and connect them to other people, new opportunities and ideas everywhere. I've believed this since I unboxed my first computer.

To do this, I believe in engineering with purpose. I like to build great teams, instill them with a mission, and push them hard to deliver satisfying experiences. Everything we do, every line of code we write, needs to be instilled with purpose: every pixel should be perfect, and every byte of data needs a reason to exist.

Throughout my career, I've built software with intelligence, from personalized news feed, targeted Ads, to estimate the current value of your home. Now with much expanded compute capacity, scale and availability of training data, AI has achieved a new level of capabilities, consumer awareness and impact to business, socially and individually. I am more excited today than ever on this journey to build powerful AI to enable businesses and empower people around the world.