About

Wes Kao is an executive coach, entrepreneur, and advisor who writes at newsletter.weskao.com. She is co-founder of Maven, an edtech company that raised $25M from First Round and Andreessen Horowitz. Previously, she co-founded the altMBA with Seth Godin.

Now she teaches a bestselling course on executive communication and influence, and coaches tech leaders at companies like Amazon, Meta, DoorDash, Google, Anthropic, etc. Her writing via Substack newsletter, X, and LinkedIn reaches 350,000+ followers each week.