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🐧 Leveraging AI as a non-technical business owner | Sherry Jiang
INSIDE: Building Your First AI-Powered App, 3-Step Workflow, Real-World Project Examples
Dexter Zhuang
February 16, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 12 minutes
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I’m excited to share our first-ever AI interview with Sherry, my founder friend in the trenches!
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🤖 Leveraging AI as a non-technical business owner | Sherry Jiang
I went down the rabbit hole of coding with AI recently.
In just a few hours, I built and launched a simple app with Vercel V0 and Cursor AI. My mind was blown.
Does that sound like gibberish to you?
Don’t worry, our featured guest today will break it down nice and crisply.
Before I introduce her, let me report back that coding with AI has transformed my expectation of what a non-technical business owner can do in 3-5 years.
While the tools are not dead-simple to use, I can imagine a future where the difficulty level drops down to being on par with building a Wordpress blog in 2007. (I did it, but man setting up plugins were pesky.)
Today, I’m very excited to introduce my Singapore expat friend, Sherry Jiang, founder of Peek, an AI-powered personal finance app and instructor of a coding with AI course.
I’ll let Sherry introduce herself:
Hi, I’m the founder of Peek, an AI-powered productivity app designed to simplify personal finance for young professionals with busy lives. As someone who has been investing for years, I noticed how overwhelming financial decision-making and admin can be. That’s why I created Peek to make managing your money as enjoyable and intuitive as possible.
Before starting Peek, I spent most of my career in big tech at Google and Amazon. At Google, I was the growth product marketing manager who led helped scale Google Pay in India to over 100 million users in just three years. Outside of my startup, I’ve been learning to code with AI since mid-2024 and now teach a course that helps others go from zero to one in coding using AI tools.
Tell us about your career journey.
I started my career in big tech, working at Amazon and Google. While I loved the experience and learned from some of the brightest minds in the industry, I always felt a pull toward taking bigger risks and building something of my own. That’s when I decided to leave Google and start Peek, and haven’t looked back since.