Contributor

Nelson Cheng

Actor, ex-Google/Amazon

Nelson Cheng is a former Product Manager and Product Marketing Manager for Google and Amazon with experience in product development, strategic planning, and marketing. He is a mentor at MuckerLab, a startup accelerator in Los Angeles, and an advisor to the startups Signpost and Pogoseat. As a product manager, he was responsible for the launch of Amazon's Wedding Registry and Google AdWords' Reports. As an actor, you can see him in "Catherine"​ -- a web series starring Jenny Slate and an official selection of Sundance 2014. He can also be seen in Adult Swim's "For-Profit Online University"​, HBO's "The Newsroom"​, Funny or Die's "HUVr"​ (15 million+ views), Hulu's "Difficult People"​, and Nickelodeon's "Bella and the Bulldogs”. He also directed "The Magic Life"​, a documentary about the business side of being a magician, which was a selection of the International Documentary Association's DocuWeeks Showcase and won the Audience Choice Award at the 2012 Tacoma Film Festival. It's distributed by Gravitas Ventures and is available on Amazon Prime and iTunes.