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- Joel Ritossa@JoelRitossaFounder · DuckieW24B2B · San Francisco
- Valerie LiFounder · DuckieW24B2B · San Francisco
FOUNDERROLEBATCHINDUSTRYLOCATIONTEAMX_url
Joel RitossaDuckieFounderWinter 2024B2BSan Francisco, United States4https://x.com/JoelRitossaValerie LiDuckieFounderWinter 2024B2BSan Francisco, United States4—
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Valerie Li
Founder·Duckie
PRIMARY INFO
RoleFounder· not in title
Team size4
BatchWinter 2024
LocationSan Francisco, United States
Company statusActive
StageEarly
BIO
Cofounder and CEO of Duckie. Prior to Duckie, she has been a senior engineer for 6+ years with expertise in infrastructure. She was a tech lead at Netflix for 3 years, where she led the subscriber growth project that stopped password sharing, which added 8m new subscribers and $200m in revenue (and saved the company's stock price). Before that she was an engineer at LinkedIn, and got her Computer Science degree from USC.
Ex-company, school and discipline below are derived from this bio. Nothing is inferred when the bio is missing.
BACKGROUND
Credentialsnone mentioned
DisciplineEngineerKeyword match from the bio text, not a classifier.
TRACK RECORD
First YC company on record
COMPANY CONTEXT
Duckie
Build AI Support Agents in Minutes
Co-foundersJoel Ritossa@JoelRitossa
