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Tracy Chou (Block Party) - Founding a Mission-Driven Startup

Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders · 2026-05-06 · 47 min

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Tracy Chou is a product-minded engineering leader and exited founder with more than 15 years of experience building and scaling consumer and enterprise products. She is best known for her work advocating for diversity and inclusion in tech, and for being founder and CEO of Block Party, a platform for online safety, privacy, and anti-harassment, which was recently acquired by DeleteMe. In this conversation with Adjunct Lecturer Emily Ma, Chou explains how her early experiences working at tech startups inspired her to found a mission-driven company and how Block Party balanced mission and profitability.Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders is

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