Founder · AI product leader · builder
Building AI that understands people—and gives them time back.
I’m Reynold Wu, founder of UserApproved.ai and former product lead for Gemini-powered Gmail. I write about human simulation, AI agents, product building, and entrepreneurship.
Previously Google and Rokid · M.S. Electrical Engineering, NYU
No published writing yet.
Selected Media
The AR Show
Bringing Rokid Glass to the World
Podcast
A conversation about product strategy, computer vision, consumer AR and bringing Rokid Glass to market.
TechCrunch
Rokid’s AI platform and consumer AR strategy
Press
Quoted on Rokid’s AI platform, consumer AR strategy and global product ambitions during the company’s Series B extension.
BBC Business Daily
Anthropic: the $300bn AI firm at war with the White House
Radio interview
Joined Will Bain to discuss Anthropic, AI leadership, enterprise safety and the shift from chat-first to agent-first systems.
What I explore
Ideas I keep returning to
I write and build around three connected questions: how AI can understand people, how agents can move from conversation to action, and how founders can turn technical possibility into useful products.
A builder’s journey
From engineering foundations to AI products at global scale—and now to building a company around better understanding people.
1
UserApproved.ai
Building multi-agent user simulation and autonomous conversion optimization for ecommerce teams.
2
Led product work on Gemini-powered Gmail and generative AI experiences at global scale.
3
Rokid
Led U.S. product, marketing and business operations across AI assistants and AR smart glasses.
4
Engineer to founder
Started in hardware and systems, earned an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from NYU, and moved through software, product leadership and entrepreneurship.
A question behind the work
Technology should give people back their presence.
The best tools do more than make us productive. They reduce friction, return attention and help us show up more fully, for customers, teams and the people we love.
Let’s exchange ideas about technology that helps people live better.
Elsewhere
© 2026 Reynold Wu. All rights reserved.
Created by Rosyid Qoim
Let’s exchange ideas about technology that helps people live better.
Elsewhere
© 2026 Reynold Wu. All rights reserved.
Created by Rosyid Qoim
Let’s exchange ideas about technology that helps people live better.
Elsewhere
© 2026 Reynold Wu. All rights reserved.
Created by Rosyid Qoim