Jesse Zhang

Jesse Zhang is the CEO and co-founder of Decagon, a San Francisco-based company that builds AI agents for customer support, sales, and operational workflows. He co-founded Decagon in 2023 with Ashwin Sreenivas, and the company has grown rapidly, serving enterprise clients such as Avis Budget Group, Duolingo, and Fanatics. Zhang is known for articulating a pragmatic approach to enterprise AI deployment, notably arguing that heavily fine-tuned open-source models outperform frontier models for most production workloads once workflows mature, with roughly 90 percent of Decagon's production traffic running on open-source models. He previously co-founded Lowkey, which was acquired by Niantic in 2021, and holds a degree in computer science from Harvard University.