Young-Ghee 'YG' Hong

Applied AI @ Owner.com

New York, New York, United States

About

0-to-1 generalist, prototyping specialist

Experience

  • Owner.com (10 mos)
    • Applied AI Manager
      Mar 2026 - Present · 4 mos

    • Applied AI Lead
      Sep 2025 - Mar 2026 · 7 mos

      Owner's first AI hire

  • Founder at BoxRay
    Nov 2018 - Present · 7 yrs 8 mos

    Created concepts, completed market research of competitors, developed design/function prototypes, coded android app on Android Studio, and released it onto Google Play Store Created Google Forms survey in order to obtain user feedback and demographic research. Searched for subreddits, Facebook groups, and other sites in order to find forums providing access pertaining to the desired target demographics Created and designed BoxRay website with the intent to form brand image - www.BoX-Ray.com. After connecting to Google Analytics and creating and connecting Google Adwords campaign, redesigned website and user experience in order to lower bounce rate and increase session duration

  • New Company Creation at Atomic
    Jun 2023 - Jul 2025 · 2 yrs 2 mos

    0-to-1, over and over. Verticals: Finance, Legal, Healthcare, CRE, eComm, and Consumer AI.

  • Village Builder at The Bruin Startup Village
    May 2023 - Jun 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos

    UCLA founders who raise money, scale businesses, and do cool shit together

  • NoCode Developer at DJ Phreek
    Aug 2021 - Jul 2023 · 2 yrs

    Developed mobile application on Bubble.io for software designed to let artisan DJs list their live stream schedule for friends and fans. Connected with OneSignal API to implement user-tracked push notification system.