# Bing Wu

> Bing Wu is the co-founder and CEO of Retell AI, a platform for building and operating AI voice agents. A former ByteDance/TikTok product manager and college entrepreneur, he helped redirect an early livestream-dubbing product toward business phone conversations. His public writing emphasizes live usage, founder involvement in operations, and careful hiring; Retell reports reaching $80 million in annualized revenue in September 2026.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Retell AI
- **Organizations:** Retell AI, ByteDance, TikTok, Y Combinator
- **Education:** B.S., University of Southern California, Y Combinator
- **Known for:** Co-founded Retell AI and led it as CEO through its YC Winter 2024 batch., Retell reports reaching $40M annualized revenue and profitability in November 2025, and $80M annualized revenue in September 2026., Retell was included in Wing VC’s 2026 Enterprise Tech 30 early-stage list.

## Career timeline

- **Before 2020** — Founded two investor-backed startups while in college, generating six-figure revenues, according to his YC biography.
- **2020-2023** — Worked in product management at ByteDance and TikTok; his YC biography describes three years working on B2B and consumer products.
- **2023** — Co-founded Retell AI with Todd Li, Zexia Zhang, Weijia Yu and Evie Wang; the company timeline dates YC acceptance to November.
- **2024** — Retell publicly launched in February, participated in YC Winter 2024 and records a $4.6M seed round in May.
- **2025** — Retell reports $40M in annualized revenue and profitability in November.
- **2026** — Retell launched Conductor in June and reports $80M in annualized revenue in September.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Retell AI and led it as CEO through its YC Winter 2024 batch.
- Retell reports reaching $40M annualized revenue and profitability in November 2025, and $80M annualized revenue in September 2026.
- Retell was included in Wing VC’s 2026 Enterprise Tech 30 early-stage list.
- Retell announced first place in the 10-24 employee category of the San Francisco Business Times’ 2026 Bay Area Best Places to Work list.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Retell’s company timeline reports reaching $80M in annualized revenue.
- **2026-06** — Retell launched Conductor on June 29, an AI copilot that proposes voice-agent workflow changes requiring human approval.
- **2026-06** — On June 22, Retell announced its Bay Area workplace award in the 10-24 employee category.
- **2026-05** — Wu appeared in Nasdaq’s May 7 interview and CX Foundation’s May 13 Executive Spotlight.

## Links

- Website: https://www.retellai.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bingw/

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Last updated: 2026-10-14