Hi, I'm Zoya.

I’m building a media company with my family.

A lifetime ago (c 2020-21), I helped my mom start getting paid for being funny. Since then, I've built things to solve other problems, now collected in my resume.

I learned how to code at Stanford University. This skill led me to develop product at a startup and intern as a software engineer at Apple, which I quite enjoyed—until I realized, as AI commodifies words, the future belongs to people who can preserve stories.

My storytelling began at The Bronx High School of Science, a talent-dense public school with nearly a thousand students per grade, where having a personality was a matter of survival. I grew up in New York City and still walk at an unreasonably fast pace for a 5'0" girl’s stride. I like books, standing on my hands, New Yorker covers, Latin (especially The Aeneid, Anne Carson’s Sappho 16, Catullus's Epyllion), Spotify, the act of synthesizing, farmer’s markets, and believing in a force bigger than us.

If you’re curious for more, email or find me here:

• zoyagarg_ on Instagram
• zoyagarg on GitHub
• zoyagarg_ on X
• zoyagarg on LinkedIn