Xiaoyu Wang
王小雨
Xiaoyu Wang (王小雨) is the founder and CEO of Castbox, a global podcast platform she built after leaving Google, where she had worked as a developer. A Peking University psychology graduate, she launched Castbox to fill a gap in overseas mobile podcast markets, with registered users once reaching 30 million and ranking it among the top third-party podcast apps .
Facing monetization challenges and market pressures, Wang led a difficult pivot from a single-product model to a matrix approach, expanding into entertainment products and now overseeing more than 50 products with over 50 million monthly active users globally . More recently, she and her team have been developing AI-native products, positioning the company as what ZhenFund described as an "AI-powered product factory" .
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Castbox's Wang Xiaoyu: 50+ Products, 50M+ MAU, How a Podcast App Went Global and Became an AI-Powered Product Factory
Stay at the table and wait for a better opportunity.
Talking AI Tech Applications, Founder Mindset, and the Scale of Entrepreneurship | A Conversation with Xiaoyu Wang of Castbox
YC Founder's Latest Viral Silicon Valley Essay: Founder Mode May Be the Better Operating Model for Startups | Z Talk
In reality, there are two fundamentally different ways to run a company: founder mode versus manager mode.
