Leon Lin

Leon Lin is the co-founder and CEO of 1stCollab, a Y Combinator-backed (W23) influencer marketing platform that automates and performance-optimizes creator campaigns end to end. Before founding the company in 2022, he spent nine years at Pinterest, rising to Head of Discovery Product where he led Home, Search, and recommendations surfaces. A Stanford computer scientist who taught the school's flagship CS courses, Leon now applies machine learning to predict which creators will actually convert for brands. He also writes 'Avoid Boring People,' a finance-and-tech newsletter read by thousands.