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John Ta

John Ta

Founder & CEO building AI compliance for affiliate marketing

San Francisco, California
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Joined September 2024
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Summary

Entrepreneurial founder focused on financial education and compliance: John co-founded Penn Common Cents to teach practical personal finance to students and later founded Affil.ai to solve compliance and monitoring problems in financial affiliate marketing. commoncents+2
Product-led startup operator building AI for regulated marketing: As CEO of Affil.ai he focuses on using AI to discover affiliate content, label products mentioned, and automate compliance checks for credit-card and financial marketing. affil+2
Teaching and technical background from UPenn: Trained in biochemistry & biophysics, John has served as a TA (MATH-241), produced instructional content (YouTube), and helped grow student-facing educational programs. youtube+1
Early-stage community and venture engagement: He has participated in the RippleX fellowship and is active in the YC startup ecosystem as a founder, signaling experience both in venture communities and early-stage growth roles. medium+2

Work

Education

Projects

Writing

Orthogonality Principle to solve for Coefficients [MATH-241] [PDEs]

January 1, 2020

A teaching video explaining how to use the orthogonality principle to find coefficients in an infinite Fourier series for MATH-241 (PDEs).

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How To Monitor Affiliate Activity – For Financial Brands

A detailed blog post describing approaches to discover, monitor, and ensure compliance of affiliate content for financial brands, and how AI can improve affiliate monitoring and disclosure detection.

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Hobbies

Travel hacking / collecting and using points for travel. nitter+1