# Richie Zeng

> Richie Zeng co-founded Wearhaus with fellow Berkeley engineering student Nelson Zhang in 2013. As CEO and product lead, he worked on Bluetooth headphones that let nearby listeners share synchronized audio. Wearhaus later supplied audio-sharing technology through a partnership announced with Monster in 2020. His public LinkedIn profile now lists Meta.

- **Role:** Engineering Manager at Meta
- **Organizations:** Wearhaus, Meta, UpMetrics, Toptal, Yelp, Rackspace Hosting
- **Education:** Studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; left before completing the program, University of California, Berkeley
- **Known for:** Co-founded Wearhaus and brought app-connected audio-sharing headphones to market., Listed first place at PennApps in January 2013 for the Inventory RFID/Bluetooth project., Co-inventor named on the Wearhaus international headphone patent application published in 2015.

## Career timeline

- **2012** — Software development internship at Rackspace Hosting.
- **2013** — Software engineering internship at Yelp; co-founded Wearhaus with Nelson Zhang.
- **2014** — Wearhaus launched direct crowdfunding in May and a Kickstarter campaign in November.
- **2015** — Named with Zhang as an inventor on the published application Headphones for receiving and transmitting audio signals.
- **2016** — Wearhaus announced a $4 million Series A in November.
- **2017** — Wearhaus introduced the Beam in-ear headphone campaign.
- **2019** — Joined Toptal; worked on product management at UpMetrics.
- **2020** — Monster announced Music Share technology developed in partnership with Wearhaus and MultiLink LLC; Zeng also joined Meta according to his publicly indexed career history.
- **2022** — Began an engineering management role at Meta according to his publicly indexed career history.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Wearhaus and brought app-connected audio-sharing headphones to market.
- Listed first place at PennApps in January 2013 for the Inventory RFID/Bluetooth project.
- Co-inventor named on the Wearhaus international headphone patent application published in 2015.
- Led Wearhaus during its $4 million Series A announced in November 2016.

## Latest updates

- **2020-01** — Monster announced Music Share at CES, powered by MultiLink technology developed in partnership with Wearhaus. Zeng shared a CES 2020 demonstration announcement on LinkedIn.
- **2022-01** — Publicly indexed career history dates the start of his Meta engineering management role to January 2022.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richzeng
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/zengrichie
- GitHub: https://github.com/richzeng

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Last updated: 2026-10-25