Gary Gao
Co-Founder @ Chert · CS + Wharton @ Penn · Z-Fellow
Currently co-founder and CEO at Chert (YC P26), which is the infrastructure for building conversational interfaces on iMessage.
Previously studying CS + Business at Penn and Wharton.
Writing
All posts →- 2026Thoughts and questions on business spam protocolsHey everyone! I’ve been doing some thinking on business spam and wanted to get your opinion on something. Business messaging technology has witnessed very…
- 2026Chert Biztext - spam that people wantBiztext is the business messaging protocol that proactively delivers spam people want. It does this through a single intermediary agent that has context on…
- 2026The Future of Messaging is ProtocolChat and messaging is possibly the most important piece of software/technology in all of our lives. However, it is also the vertical with the slowest…
- 2025The Chert ThesisWhy AI agents need a layer of trust — and how that turns an 8B market into a 50B one.
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