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Diane Yu

Co-founder & CEO, TidalWave. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Diane Yu previously co-founded digital video advertising platform FreeWheel and served as Chief Technology Officer at Comcast Advertising and Better.com. Today, she is the Co-founder and CEO of TidalWave, an AI-driven mortgage workflow platform, and serves on the board of directors of Magnite.

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Everything Diane Yu said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

INNOVATORS & INVESTORS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Yu: FreeWheel never lost a deal competing against Google
“We competed with Google, hide and hide competition, never lost a deal.”
Diane Yu Sep 12, 2025 ▶ 4:28 Evolutionizing Mortgage with AI: How Tidalwave Transforms Mortgage Lending
Yu: Point of sale is the best entry point for mortgage software
“Starting from the back end, even though as an engineer is the right entrance, but it's not the best. Why don't you think from a different perspective? Why don't you think from the point of sale industry has been liking of innovation for a long time. It's a sma…”
Diane Yu Sep 12, 2025 ▶ 13:09 Evolutionizing Mortgage with AI: How Tidalwave Transforms Mortgage Lending
INNOVATORS & INVESTORS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Yu: Mortgage tech shifted from AI skepticism to intense FOMO
“I would say that FinTech and the mortgage tech this year, I've seen a huge difference, a change, a mentality change from, Hey, it may not be something that's even relevant to me to today saying, you know what? Fear of missing out. I have to get in. I have to s…”
Diane Yu Sep 12, 2025 ▶ 33:33 Evolutionizing Mortgage with AI: How Tidalwave Transforms Mortgage Lending
INNOVATORS & INVESTORS Assertion Supported
Yu: FreeWheel captured over 70% market share before Comcast acquisition
“At the end that, you know, basically we had about set over a 70% of market share for the infant industry we were in.”
Diane Yu Sep 12, 2025 ▶ 16:25 Evolutionizing Mortgage with AI: How Tidalwave Transforms Mortgage Lending
INNOVATORS & INVESTORS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Yu: Tidalwave grew pipeline 3x in a quarter with zero marketing spend
“And then that's how we grow our pipeline in the past quarter, three months just exploded, and we grow like three acts of the pipeline, like within that quarter, and then only considering we have like two sales, and then, you know, I'm not paying anything for l…”
Diane Yu Sep 12, 2025 ▶ 23:54 Evolutionizing Mortgage with AI: How Tidalwave Transforms Mortgage Lending
Yu: Tidalwave's New York team works in office four days a week
“We have several locations that we consider as an office and then New York is one of the you know, the location that we have offer you know, team come to the office four days a week.”
Diane Yu Sep 12, 2025 ▶ 29:44 Evolutionizing Mortgage with AI: How Tidalwave Transforms Mortgage Lending
INNOVATORS & INVESTORS Assertion Not checkable as stated
Yu: Traditional mortgage updates can take up to 45 days
“When you're applying for mortgage, you talk to people, you send them a lot of documents, and maybe in like two weeks or 45 days sometimes, They come back and tell you the updated information.”
Diane Yu Sep 12, 2025 ▶ 1:03 Evolutionizing Mortgage with AI: How Tidalwave Transforms Mortgage Lending
INNOVATORS & INVESTORS Assertion Supported
Yu: Comcast acquired FreeWheel for close to $400 million
“Comcast acquisitions, like a close to four hundred million.”
Diane Yu Sep 12, 2025 ▶ 25:22 Evolutionizing Mortgage with AI: How Tidalwave Transforms Mortgage Lending

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