# Alex Li

> Alex Li is the San Francisco-based founder and CEO of Kubit. A former Smule CTO, Booyah engineering leader, Jasper Wireless architect and founding member of eBay Classifieds, he built Kubit after working on analytics infrastructure for large consumer apps. His work focuses on self-service analysis, customer control of warehouse data and connecting AI agent activity with user behavior.

- **Role:** Founder and CEO at Kubit
- **Organizations:** Kubit, Smule, Booyah, Jasper Wireless, eBay Classifieds, Forbes Technology Council
- **Education:** BS in Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, MS in Computer Science, Columbia University
- **Known for:** Served as CTO of Smule during a seven-year period of technology leadership., Built an internal analytics tool at Smule that helped inspire Kubit., Founded Kubit in 2018 and led it through its announced $18 million Series A in 2022.

## Career timeline

- **2005** — Public project history lists the My eBay redesign in January and the initial Kijiji/eBay Classifieds launch in September.
- **Before Smule** — Worked as principal architect at Jasper Wireless and vice president of engineering at Booyah.
- **Before 2018** — Led technology at Smule for seven years; built an internal product analytics tool to replace Mixpanel.
- **2018** — Founded Kubit.
- **2020** — Scheduled to speak at ProductWorld on February 14 about data-driven product management.
- **2022** — Kubit announced an $18 million Series A led by Insight Partners, with Shasta Ventures and TSVC participating.
- **2023** — Kubit announced its Snowflake-powered product analytics platform on June 27.
- **2025** — Kubit announced Ask Kubit on August 7.
- **2026** — Kubit launched its agent-and-user analytics offering on Product Hunt on August 11.

## Achievements

- Served as CTO of Smule during a seven-year period of technology leadership.
- Built an internal analytics tool at Smule that helped inspire Kubit.
- Founded Kubit in 2018 and led it through its announced $18 million Series A in 2022.
- Founding member of eBay Classifieds.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Unified Product Analytics documentation updated September 29 by Alex Li describes a common event model and user identity for agent actions and product behavior.
- **2026-08** — Kubit’s agent-and-user analytics offering launched on Product Hunt on August 11.
- **2026-01** — His LinkedIn profile lists January articles on data silos, AI tools and retaining control of warehouse data.
- **2025-08** — Kubit announced its Ask Kubit conversational analytics interface.

## Links

- Website: https://kubit.ai/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zhonglingli/

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