2x founder

Austin Chen

CEO at Marlo

Co-founder

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2025Co-founder· Marlo

Founder · since 2016

Company

Marlo

Role

CEO & Co-Founder

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

SF / LA

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

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Experience

Career

Marlo
Co-founder
CEO & Co-Founder · SF / LA · 2025 – Present
2025
South Park Commons
Member · San Francisco Bay Area · 2024
2024
TikTok
Director of Product Management · SF / LA / Shanghai · 2023 – 2024
2023
Apple
Head of Product · SF / LA / London · 2018 – 2022
2018
Asaii
Co-founder
COO & Co-Founder · San Francisco Bay Area · 2016 – 2018
2016
Apple
Global Operations Manager · Cupertino · 2016
2016
Uber
Product Manager · San Francisco Bay Area · 2015 – 2016
2015
University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
Research · Berkeley, California · 2014 – 2015
2014

Bio

Austin is a second time founder with an exit to Apple. He previous built Asaii, an artist discovery platform (signing Alina Baraz, Khalid, Alice Merton) that Apple acquired to kickstart their in-house record label & Apple Music for Artists. Most recently, he was a product director at TikTok looking after creator monetization bringing products like TikTok Shop, Taylor's Eras Tour, & Super Fans to market driving hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.