Xiaoyu Wang
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Xiaoyu Wang (王小雨) is the founder and CEO of Castbox, a podcast app that pivoted into a broader AI-powered product factory . A former Google employee with a psychology degree from Peking University, she launched Castbox to fill a gap in the mobile podcast market, at one point reaching 30 million registered users and ranking as the top third-party podcast product . After Spotify entered the podcast space in 2018, Wang led Castbox through a difficult transition to a matrix-style product strategy spanning entertainment-related products, and has since pushed the company into AI-native products . In a 2024 ZhenFund podcast, she discussed her perspective on founder mentality and the challenges of integrating AI into product development .
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