Julie Zhuo

JULIE IS AN ADVIsOR TO DESIGNUP.SCHOOL & GUEST SPEAKER

“Your career is defined by your skills and how you’ve used them, not by any external measure of your progress.”

Julie Zhuo is the co-founder of Sundial, which builds tools to help companies understand the story of their data to make better decisions. Before that she was the VP of Product Design for the Facebook app, where she helped scale the service from 10 million users to over 2 billion during her nearly 14 years there. Her field guide to management, The Making of a Manager, became an instant Wall Street Journal bestseller and was selected as one of Amazon’s Best Business and Leadership Books of 2019.

She writes about technology, design, and leadership on her popular blog and mailing list, The Looking Glass. She graduated with a computer science Bachelors and Master’s from Stanford University and lives with her husband and three children in California’s Bay Area.