I'm Zoe Chew 👋

Analyst in AI & emerging tech. Product /GTM/Community for US/APAC remote-first cos. On Deck Fellowship (ODF10). Apps ft. on Product Hunt #1, HackerNoon & tech blogs in 7 countries.

What I've Built

I like solving problems through product building: validating pain points and putting solutions in front of actual users. Some for work, some for fun.

Global Appearance

My work has been featured globally across multiple platforms:

Creative Goals 2026

A few things I’m practicing this year to stay curious, build more often, and keep life interesting.

GoalProgress
Ship 4 internal tools that make my work easier 🧰2/4
Build a regular journaling practice 📝84/200
Deepen my meditation practice 🧘‍♂️201/300
Learn 12 challenging recipes 🥘6/12
Propagate 5 plants successfully 🪴2/5
Read 12 books that change how I think 📚8/12
Complete a Vipassana retreat 🕉️0/1
Have 20 thoughtful conversations with founders 👋11/20

Public Speaking



My Writing

How to Generate SaaS Business Ideas?

I'll share three powerful frameworks that I frequently used in my consulting to help identify untapped market niches.

How to Build Better Digital Products?

Look for problems that bother many people. If more people have the problem, it's more important to solve.

4 Product Testing Methods to Apply

I'll share my product framework helping you in conducting effective testing throughout the product development process.

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How AI and technology shifts reshape products and markets

About Me

Hey, nice to meet you! I'm Zoe, I build things on the internet.My background is in product building, working alongside early-stage founders on go-to-market strategy, and writing about technology and business.Today, I analyze AI & emerging technologies through Venturescale. I help investors, strategists, and operators understand what matters and what it means in the AI industry.Early on (pre-AI boom), I was known for building products with low-code tools. My AI summarizer reached Product Hunt #1 and was featured in Lifehacker, HackerNoon and tech blogs across seven countries.Fun Fact: I dabbled in electronic music production and released an EDM song on Spotify via a record label based in Miami, United States.


Experiences

Archetype

  1. Builder mindset. Creating, testing, and learning through action.

  2. Curiosity-driven. Following interesting questions wherever they lead.

  3. Cross-functional practitioner across product, marketing, design, and business.

How I Learn

  1. Learn by doing, building & creating

  2. Pursue knowledge in T (width and depth)

  3. Micro consumption, macro execution

  4. Cross-disciplinary, a multifaceted approach

When I'm Not Working

  1. Meditating, practicing breathwork, and creating space to think.

  2. Some of my best problem-solving happens in moments of stillness, solitude, and reflection.

  3. Experiment with biohacking—not to maximize performance, but to better understand how my mind and body work.

On Product

  1. Focus on the customers' problem before the product.

  2. Look for painful problems that people are already paying to solve.

  3. Build things you genuinely wish existed.

On Writing

  1. Concise writing derives from clear thinking

  2. Clear thinking comes from a focused mind

  3. A focused mind is cultivated by intention

Favorite Quotes

  1. "Figure out how to figure it out"— Sam Altman.

  2. "Entrepreneurship is not about starting companies; it's about solving problems." — Michael Seibel.

  3. "Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born" — Nikola Tesla.


Books that shaped my work and life 📚


Reading is one of my favorite ways to stay curious and improve my mental models.I read across technology, business, creativity, psychology, and life. I keep the ideas that change how I think, make decisions, build, or live.This page is a small collection of books that gave me useful ways to see problems more clearly and approach them differently.If you come across a book you think I’d enjoy, feel free to tweet me!

Building:

  1. Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed — Alexis Ohanian. The internet lets you build, publish, and find an audience without waiting for permission from traditional gatekeepers.

  2. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness — Eric Jorgenson. Use specific knowledge and leverage, such as code and media, to create value that can scale beyond your time.

  3. Hunch: Turn Your Everyday Insights Into the Next Big Thing — Bernadette Jiwa. Good ideas often begin by noticing unmet needs and trusting an insight before the data makes it obvious.

  4. How Google Works — Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg. Hire smart, curious people and give them enough freedom to make decisions, experiment, and build great products.

  5. Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration — Ed Catmull. Creative work improves when people can speak honestly about problems without fear of being punished for getting things wrong.

  6. The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution — Walter Isaacson. Big innovations usually come from people building on one another’s ideas across teams, generations, and disciplines.

  7. Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days — Jake Knapp. Turn important questions into prototypes and test them with real people before spending months building the full thing.

  8. Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered — Austin Kleon. Share your process while you work so people can discover what you do before the finished product exists.

  9. Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose — Tony Hsieh. A strong culture shapes how employees treat customers, which eventually becomes part of the brand itself.

Thinking:

  1. Why I Write — George Orwell. Writing becomes clearer when I understand the motives behind why I want to write in the first place.

  2. The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) — Seth Godin. Quit paths that lead nowhere so you can concentrate your effort on the few things worth becoming exceptional at.

  3. Who Moved My Cheese? — Spencer Johnson. When circumstances change, adapting early usually serves me better than holding on to how things used to work.

  4. The Art of War — Sun Tzu. Good strategy starts with understanding yourself, the situation, and where to act before committing resources.

  5. Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living — Bruce Lee. Stay flexible in how you think and act instead of becoming trapped by fixed systems or beliefs.

  6. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People — Stephen R. Covey. Focus first on what I can influence, decide where I want to go, then organize my actions around what matters most.

  7. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World — Cal Newport. Protecting long periods of focused attention makes it easier to learn difficult things and produce valuable work.

Life:

  1. The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness — Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga. Separate what belongs to me from what belongs to other people, especially their opinions and reactions.

  2. The Hidden School: Return of the Peaceful Warrior — Dan Millman. Some of life’s most important lessons are hidden inside ordinary experience when I learn to pay closer attention.

  3. Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear — Elizabeth Gilbert. Fear can come along for the ride, while curiosity and creativity still decide where I go.

  4. When You're Ready, This Is How You Heal — Brianna Wiest. Healing is an ongoing process of letting go of old patterns and gradually building a life around who I am becoming.

  5. Pulling Your Own Strings — Wayne W. Dyer. Take responsibility for my choices instead of giving other people the power to decide how I should think or live.

  6. The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom — Don Miguel Ruiz. Use my words carefully, take less personally, question assumptions, and do the best I can with what I have.

  7. The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life's Perfection — Michael A. Singer. Letting go of the need to control every outcome can leave more room to respond to what life actually brings.

  8. Mindfulness, Bliss, and Beyond: A Meditator's Handbook — Ajahn Brahm. Meditation deepens by patiently letting go of the past, future, and effort until attention settles into the present.

  9. Tao Te Ching — Lao Tzu. Some problems become easier when I stop forcing an outcome and learn to work with the natural direction of things.

  10. Atomic Habits — James Clear. Small repeated actions shape identity, so lasting change comes from building better systems around who I want to become.


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