Sara Du is currently working on AI agents for e-commerce.
Previously, she co-founded and was the founding CEO of Alloy. Nowadays, she serves Alloy as Executive Chair.
In her spare time, she studies the web, plays with open-source projects, and enjoys studying technology more broadly—history, market currents, and emerging research.
Sara is a self-taught engineer, Harvard dropout, YC grad & Thiel Fellow. She grew up in Atlanta and currently resides in San Francisco.
Her favorite color is #002FA7 and her favorite author is Haruki Murakami.
Besides Murakami, I love Hemingway and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. I like reading books on people, history, business, architecture, and design. Below are some favorites from the past few years. AI can summarize a book in seconds, but these were worth the time—they’re the kind you have to sit with, line by line. Even in the thick of building a startup, every minute spent reading them was time well spent.
