Changyin Zhou
周昌印
Changyin Zhou is the founder and CEO of Vozo AI, a video creation tool that hit $1 million ARR within six months of its July 2024 launch and topped Product Hunt for three consecutive days . His path to building what he calls a "down-to-earth" product involved several pivots: after studying management and working at Microsoft , he joined a new team at Google X formed by a Stanford professor, leaving his PhD program at Columbia to do so . He left Google in 2015 to found VISBIT, then returned to China in 2021 for a second startup before landing on Vozo . As of early 2025, Vozo had raised roughly $6–7 million pre-Series A, led by Linear Capital and HongShan Seed .
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A Spring Weekend Evening Discussing AI Progress and Opportunities in 2025 | Shanghai Offline Salon Recap
We talked until 11 p.m. again.
How many steps does it take to become a "down-to-earth" AI founder? From Google X researcher to building a product that hit $1M ARR in six months | A conversation with Vozo founder Changyin Zhou
Changyin Zhou's Journey Fusing Technology and Business
[Shanghai Offline Salon] AI's First 100 Days of Upheaval: After DeepSeek, Manus, and GPT-4o, Where Does VC Go in 2025?
开年到现在的这 100 天，AI 领域风起云涌，从 [**DeepSeek 的突破**](https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzAxMDMxOTI2NA==&mid=2649090936&idx=1&sn=3eb049d79d7d950c8f66408dd05c27e
How to Build a "Down-to-Earth" AI Startup: From Google X Researcher to $1M ARR in 6 Months — A Conversation with Changyin Zhou, Founder of Vozo
Vozo AI's Changyin Zhou: Early Google X Engineer, Video Product Goes Viral on Product Hunt, 6 Million Global Users | Z Talk
The market for video creation is a $100 billion opportunity that's severely underestimated.
Linear Capital held its annual USD investor conference, while its angel-round portfolio company Horizon Robotics listed on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
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