Nicole Zhang

I'm a product marketer and builder based in NYC. I'm currently at Hex helping to bring the magic of AI to data analytics. 🪄

I've been building in the startup space for the past 5 years. Previously, I founded Polairis (fka Bookmark), a knowledge management startup that made it easier to find information across siloed sources. Before that, I worked at Bubble as their first PMM. 🫧

I graduated from Harvard with a degree in Economics and Integrative Biology. Alongside my studies I founded Sylphi, a healthtech company incubated at the Harvard iLabs focused on solving medication nonadherence and building an online community for discussing mental health. 🧠

💬 Quotes I live by:

  • "We suffer more in imagination than in reality." - Seneca
  • "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead
  • "Whatever you are, be a good one." - Abraham Lincoln

📚 Books I love:

  • I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
  • Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
  • Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
  • Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
  • Trust by Hernan Diaz
  • A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

When I'm not working, you can catch me playing soccer or running on the West Side Highway! âš½

Feel free to reach out on LinkedIn or X.