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Coco Mao

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CEO & Co-Founder at OpenArt AI
📍 Redwood City, California, United States

Coco Mao is the CEO and Co-Founder of OpenArt, a platform that turns ideas into visual stories using generative AI. A Carnegie Mellon University graduate with a background in Computer Science, she previously worked at Google as a Product Manager and Software Engineer. People who have worked with her describe her as passionate, intelligent, tenacious, and versatile.

Her vision for OpenArt is to democratize visual storytelling, making it as accessible as writing. She is deeply involved with her users, often communicating with them directly to understand their needs. As a teenager, she directed a short film that had a profound emotional impact, sparking her long-term passion for visual narratives.

She holds a patent from her time at LinkedIn for a system that selects and displays featured professional profiles on social networking services.

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Experience
8 Years
Current Role
CEO & Co-Founder
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Redwood City, California, United States
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AI Visual Storytelling
As CEO of OpenArt, her primary focus is on enabling users to create compelling visual narratives and videos from simple text prompts, moving beyond static image generation.
Lean Startup Growth
She champions building highly efficient, lean teams, having scaled OpenArt to significant annual revenue with a small number of employees and sharing her growth strategies publicly.
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Career

Work history

8-2022
CEO & Co-Founder
OpenArt AI
10-2020 - 1-2022
Product Manager (Google Search)
Google
4-2019 - 7-2021
Product Manager/Lead : Tangi in Area 120
Google
3-2017 - 3-2019
Senior Software Engineer
Google
1-2013 - 1-2015
Teaching Assistant
Carnegie Mellon University
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Education
2011 - 2015
Bachelor
Carnegie Mellon University
2015 - 2015
Computer Science
Jacobs University Bremen
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