Janie Gu

Janie Gu

Product leader with a decade of impact at Scale AI, Discord, Lyft, Google.

currently: Building industry-standard AI benchmarks at Scale AI's research lab.

🚀 Products & Press

Showdown: Scale AI's benchmark segmenting model performance by profession and demographic

First preference benchmark segmented by profession and demographic. New methodology which captures authentic user preference in-situ, and data policies to prevent overfitting.

Watch Janie on podcast →
Janie quoted in Bloomberg →
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Discord's Apps platform: brought frontier AI to 45M consumers for the first time

Built the platform that enabled Midjourney, Viggle, and other AI companies to reach millions of users through Discord's developer ecosystem.

(TechCrunch) Discord as center of AI boom →
(a16z) How Discord became a developer platform →

Lyft's marketplace products: Shared Rides, Wait & Save, Scheduled Rides

Optimized marketplace models and turned research insights into new consumer products: Shared Rides, Wait & Save, Scheduled Rides, Priority Pickup.

2020 Wait & Save launch →
2019 Shared Saver launch →
2016 Scheduled Rides launch (TechCrunch) →

Lyft Healthcare: now serving 62% of Medicaid patients in US

Launched Lyft's healthcare vertical from 0 to 1 in 2016. Now a $1B business representing 20% of Lyft's revenue.

2016 launch announcement →
2023 update: now in 21 states, covering >62% Medicaid beneficiaries →

🔬 Patents

9 US Patents

Marketplace Products (4 patents)
Consumer-facing features that improved marketplace efficiency, including walking to pickup locations to reduce ETAs.

Marketplace Optimization & Predictive Modeling (4 patents)
Novel algorithms for dispatch, pricing, and routing at scale.

View all on Google Patents →