Brendon Wong

About Brendon Wong

I’m a product leader, tech/social entrepreneur, investment manager, researcher, and more passionate about leveraging innovation to improve people\'s lives.I\'m a staff product manager at VIZIO, where I’ve worked on multimillion-user consumer products, content recommendation systems, and enterprise-wide A/B testing and analytics. Prior to VIZIO, I was the COO of Roote, a tech nonprofit that I helped scale from 2 to 12+ people and $250K to $1M+ in funding. I was also a product manager at Capital One and a different division of VIZIO, where I worked on increasing revenue by millions of dollars by introducing banking features and greatly improving the performance of big data and AI systems by introducing novel technological approaches respectively.I\'ve also founded several social impact organizations. Unize is a social impact startup uniting the world\'s knowledge and thinking to unlock new possibilities. Unize has created new human-computer interaction paradigms, developed benchmark-leading AI systems, and advanced fields like collective intelligence and information science. I\'ve also founded Antigravity Investments, a social impact investment firm that has advised $200M+ in capital for charities, and Better, an research organization and startup studio that investigates, build, and shares effective ways for people to significantly improve their lives.I graduated from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business with a degree in Business Administration. I’m a licensed investment advisor, co-host of the Growth Podcast, and occasional coder. Outside of work, I enjoy spending time with family and friends, visiting new countries, playing strategy games, reading books, and staying active with rock climbing, bowling, and virtual reality!

Experience

1. Staff Product Manager

   VIZIO

   Aug 2023 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   Designed and implemented transformative features at VIZIO. Increased the revenue of WatchFree+ Live, a free live television app used by millions of households, by millions of dollars by supporting initiatives to improve app performance and enhance content discovery. Greatly expanded the scope of AI-powered content recommendations and the underlying data powering recommendation systems. Helped launch an enterprise-wide feature flag and A/B testing platform. Dramatically enhanced the accuracy of VIZIO OS\'s application analytics.

Education

• University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Business Administration

Skills

• Community Outreach
• Social Media
• Social Entrepreneurship
• Project Management
• Html
• Policy Analysis
• Management
• Team Building
• Nonprofits
• Product Management
• Entrepreneurship
• Research
• Web Development
• Project Consulting
• Javascript
• Python
• Teamwork
• Microsoft Excel
• Public Speaking
• Microsoft Office
• Leadership
• Strategic Planning
• Sql
• Cascading Style Sheets (Css)
• Customer Service
• Fundraising