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Dustin Yu
Member #70FounderBetaL1Founder & CEO, Alive5
Simple AI chat and SMS tools for customer-facing teams
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About
Dustin Yu is the co-founder and CEO of Alive5, a Houston company that makes simple AI chat and SMS tools for customer-facing teams. Before he started Alive5 with co-founder Glenn Gutierrez in 2017, Dustin was president and CEO of WebsiteAlive, the live chat software company that Alive5 spun off from. At Alive5, he is working to bring SMS, live chat and social messaging together in one AI-powered platform.
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Founder & Operator | Building Simple AI Solutions for Customer-Facing Teams | Simple to Use, Deployed For You
Founder & CEO · alive5
President & CEO · WebsiteAlive
Education
The University of Texas at Austin
