David Zhao

David Zhao is a co-founder at Pika Earth, where efforts focus on building a front office for home services contractors, gaining trust from HVAC and plumbing leaders across 20 states. As an investor at Feathery and a former product manager at Google overseeing HVAC Grid Services, David has extensive experience in the technology sector. Previous roles include associate product manager at YouTube, where work involved creating AI-powered tools for emerging creators, and AI researcher at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Stanford University, where patented developments took place. David also contributed to academia by co-founding and teaching a course on distributed trust applications. Additional experience includes a tenure as a venture partner at Contrary Capital and engineering at Amazon, along with research published on autonomous drone gaming and distributed sensor networks during time at Microsoft. David holds both Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Science from Stanford University.