Wes Kao is an entrepreneur, marketer, coach, and advisor who writes at newsletter.weskao.com. She is co-founder of Maven, an edtech company that raised $25M from First Round and Andreessen Horowitz. Previously, she co-founded the altMBA with bestselling author Seth Godin. Her writing via newsletter, Twitter, and LinkedIn reaches 290,000+ readers each week.

Now, she coaches and teaches operators/leaders in tech. Current and previous clients include Greg Shove (CEO of Section), Alex Lieberman and Austin Rief (co-founder/CEO of Morning Brew), Suzy Batiz (founder/CEO of Poo~Pourri), etc, among other talented individuals, including director and VP-level operators at companies like Chanel, State National, Braze, Vercel, etc, and at startups funded by Sequoia, Accel, Bessemer, SV Angel, Kleiner Perkins, etc.