# Young Zhao

> Young Zhao is the co-founder and CEO of OpusClip, an AI video editing company. A UC Berkeley graduate with a background in product design and earlier startups, he helped pivot an unsuccessful livestreaming tool into a standalone clipping product. His work now extends to video search and AI agents for video creation.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at OpusClip
- **Organizations:** OpusClip, Zaihui, OneBowl, Sober, LinkedIn, Totango
- **Education:** B.A., Computer Science and Human-Computer Interaction, University of California, Berkeley
- **Known for:** Helped grow OpusClip to five million signups and nearly $10 million ARR by the end of 2023, according to his interview., Lists Forbes China 30 Under 30 (2018) and Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 (2019) on LinkedIn., Led OpusClip as it expanded into video archive search and agent-based creation.

## Career timeline

- **2010-2014** — Attended UC Berkeley.
- **2013** — Raised funding for social app Sober, according to his EO interview.
- **2015-2021** — Co-founded Zaihui; Crunchbase lists May 2015 to August 2021.
- **2022** — Co-founded the company that became OpusClip.
- **2023** — Pivoted from livestreaming to standalone AI clipping.
- **2024** — OpusClip announced $30 million in combined Series A and prior seed funding.
- **2025** — OpusClip announced SoftBank Vision Fund 2 backing and OpusSearch.
- **2026** — Publicly discussed continued experimentation with agentic video editing.

## Achievements

- Helped grow OpusClip to five million signups and nearly $10 million ARR by the end of 2023, according to his interview.
- Lists Forbes China 30 Under 30 (2018) and Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 (2019) on LinkedIn.
- Led OpusClip as it expanded into video archive search and agent-based creation.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — OpusClip reported 20M+ creators and businesses, 440M+ clips, and 160B+ views from clips posted by users.
- **2026-10** — Zhao said the team was exploring agentic video editing and had not yet found product-market fit for that new effort.

## Links

- Website: https://www.opus.pro/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yzopus
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/opusyoung

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Last updated: 2026-10-21