Julia Zhu Olson
Founder, Gray Bay Marketing | Built 8-Figure Online Brands & a Bay Area Restaurant Group | Acting Head of Marketing
- Role
- Co-founder and Owner at Treehut
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Julia Zhu Olson
Before advising other businesses, I built my own. I’ve grown and operated multiple bootstrapped, 8-figure businesses across e-commerce, restaurants, and hospitality, personally investing $10M+ of my own capital into paid media, SEO, email marketing, creative production, and brand infrastructure. I’ve made the decisions, felt the pressure, and lived with the outcomes.That operator experience shapes everything I do. I don’t push channels. I don’t sell tactics in isolation. I think like a head of marketing, prioritizing based on what actually moves the business forward—whether that’s creative generation, SEO, lifecycle marketing, paid media, or foundational brand work.
Experience
Co-founder and Owner
Oct 2014 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US
Education
National University of Singapore
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biomedical Science
2001 — 2004
UCLA Anderson School of Management
MBA, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies
2007 — 2009
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