Lloyd Jacob
Lloyd Jacob

Product Owner, Ex-Startup Founder

Building scalable advertising technology platforms across DSPs, Retail Media Networks & Social Platforms. Ex-Amazon Product Leader, Business Strategist, and YC Alum.

My Articles

10 Common Product Manager Mistakes to Avoid

A deep dive into strategic missteps in tech validation, product execution, and framework construction.

Technical SEO for Startups

How early-stage engineering and architecture frameworks establish crawlability and discovery systems safely.

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My Projects

Choruku.fit

An AI-built fitness tracker, designed and shipped solo using AI tools across the full build, from product concept through working application.

Visual HTML Ad Editor

An AI-built browser-based tool for editing HTML ad creative and video, built to explore how far AI-assisted development can go in producing a real, usable creative tool without a traditional engineering team.

Grocery Store Ad

A retailer's web ad transformed into polished 1920x1080 video with animations and AI voiceover. Built in Claude in 12 hours.

Insurance Ad

Researching LLM-powered video with Kling. Early prototype exploring the frontier of AI-generated video production.

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About Me

Over the last 15 years, I've operated across the full spectrum of AdTech innovation—from scaling a YC-backed startup to $20M ARR, to owning predictive forecasting engines for Amazon's $50B+ global platform, and building custom retail media ad networks.

I bridge high-level product strategy with hardcore engineering execution to build systems that scale.

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