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Charles Hua

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Investor and Advisor at Startups
📍 San Francisco, California, United States

Charles is an entrepreneurial product leader who founded Poised, an AI communication coach acquired by Deepgram. His experience includes building voice products at Amazon Alexa and defining GTM strategy at AWS. He holds an MBA from UC Berkeleys Haas School of Business and now leads product at Pinnacle.

Passionate about improving how people live and work, Charles actively supports the next generation of founders as an angel investor and advisor. He helps early-stage companies with product strategy and fundraising, and enjoys giving back by participating in coaching sessions at his alma mater, UC Berkeley.

He founded and led a company in the new category of AI coaching, which analyzed millions of video meetings before being acquired.

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Current Role
Investor and Advisor
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
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AI-Powered Coaching
He founded Poised, an AI communication coach, and now leads product for Pinnacle - AI Coaching, demonstrating deep expertise in this emerging category.
Voice & Conversational AI
His background includes building voice products at Amazon Alexa and founding Poised, which focused on improving spoken communication through AI.
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Career

Work history

Investor and Advisor
Startups
Head of Product and Engineering
Pinnacle - AI Coaching
Founder, CEO (acquired by Deepgram)
Poised
Product Management, Alexa
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Business and GTM, Amazon Web Services
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Education
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)
University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
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