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Growing the Zo team to build the Personal Cloud

If you're excited about Zo and looking for your next opportunity, get in touch with us. Our cofounders Ben & Rob met on the early Venmo team in 2013. Rob went on to be the founding engineer at Substack. Ben was an early engineer at Stripe (2015) and worked there for 8 years.

We’re a lean team seeking only the most talented engineers. In addition to engineering skills, we also assess Zo product sense. In your application, please include your resume, why you love Zo, and what you would improve in a short video.

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In this short video, Ben chats with Patrick Sullivan from Linq – their team flew to our team offsite in Puerto Rico to film this interview. We talk about Gas Town for consumers, the importance of texting as the user interface in the age of personal agents, and how Stripe’s focus on designing durable abstractions inspires us at Zo. We’re obsessed with designing durable abstractions for consumers (and their personal agents) to harness the power of the cloud.

If you’re just getting started with Zo, check out this in-depth tour of Rob’s personal Zo Computer setup. Rob has a very “lived-in” Zo where he syncs years of personal data, hosts dozens of services, and is constantly experimenting with new ways to use Zo for learning, getting things done, and automating his life.

Last week, Ben joined Marc Baselga and Ben Erez on their podcast. We started Zo about a year ago (long before the OpenClaw craze), pivoting from our original product, an agentic inference platform. Back in 2023, we knew that LLMs could be much more capable when given a distributed computing environment. As we explored early agentic code generation patterns, we realized that the next generation of developers (and cloud customers) would be everyone on earth – so we decided to build Zo.

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