Tao Zhang

About

Tao Zhang

Staff AI Product Manager. I help teams build software that makes money, cuts waste, and stays usable. Most of that work has been e-commerce and marketplaces. The last stretch is AI agents.

I am currently at Tec-Do 2.0, working on AI agent products. Before that I shipped growth and GTM work at PCOnline, consumer e-commerce products at Ziff Davis, and earlier product work at ByteDance and Tencent.

I have an MS in Information Systems from NYU, split between Stern and Courant. I also spent time as a data scientist at NYU, building pipelines for medical research.

Long essays go to Tao's AI × Product Playbook and are archived in Writing. Short posts from LinkedIn, X, and Mastodon sit in Notes. Ecommerce research — markets, platforms, source-audited reports — lives on Globegraphy.

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