Hriday Kemburu

Hriday Kemburu is a product growth expert and entrepreneur with extensive experience in the tech industry. Currently serving as the Founding Product Growth Lead at GPTZero since June 2025, Hriday previously held key roles at Perplexity and Opendoor, where significant contributions included the development of Opendoor Exclusives, a groundbreaking e-commerce checkout system for real estate. Before Opendoor, Hriday co-founded Wildfire, a social news and safety app that gained notable traction, being ranked #5 in the App Store and achieving impressive user retention metrics. Wildfire's success led to its acquisition by Opendoor. Hriday's career also includes early experience as an iOS Developer at Geekin Radio and as a Software Engineering Intern at Visa. An alumnus of the University of California, Berkeley, Hriday holds a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science and participated in the Y Combinator program in 2017. In 2020, Hriday was recognized in Forbes' 30 Under 30 list for Consumer Technology.