# Westye Hoegh

**Growth Ops at Muse Computers** — Chicago, IL, United States

> Startup operator and investor focused on growth, product, and business development. Currently scaling a consumer AI startup backed by Amplify.

Career Archetype: **Studio Trailblazer** (OB-MG) — One of the first Studio Trailblazers on Saywise

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/westye-hoegh-608760329/?isSelfProfile=true

## Experience

### Special Projects, Cognite (2026-05 – 2026-08)
Oslo, Norway · Delivered an industrial customer use case involving Unitree G1 humanoid robots, moving from prototype through field testing to customer-accepted demo. Trained new models, deployed collision avoidance and autonomous navigation systems, and implemented long-range teleoperation.

### Growth Ops, Stealth (2025-10 – 2026-03)
San Francisco Bay Area · conversational consumer ai

### Growth Ops, Muse Computers (2025-10 – present)
San Francisco, CA · Joined a consumer AI startup at pre-seed stage backed by Amplify, which has since raised a $12M seed round with investors from OpenAI and Cursor. Drove GTM execution, hiring strategy, and product ideation while scaling accounts to average 250K impressions.

### Growth Intern, Voltic Shipping (YC S22) (2025-09 – 2025-12)
Boston, MA · Worked at a company building electric, zero-emission cargo ships and supporting software. Built core website components and developed AI-driven automation workflows for grant letters. Company reached profitability in December 2025.

### Business Development Intern, Polsky Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (2025-08 – 2025-09)
Chicago, US · Advised WINUS Packaging on brand visibility and operational growth strategies in a competitive local market. Led outreach experiments targeting 10-15% growth in sales and partnership leads.

### Private Equity Intern, Px3 Partners (2025-06 – 2025-09)
London, UK · Supported buy-side mandate win by drafting Investment Committee memos. Assessed over 100 AI automation tools and delivered recommendations that were fully adopted, reducing junior due-diligence hours by approximately 25%.

## Education

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Data Science & Philosophy, University of Chicago (2024-09 – 2028-06)
GPA: 3.90

### A Levels, St Paul's School (2015-09 – 2024-07)
4 A*s

## Projects

### UChicago Core Fund
First institutional, student-led venture capital fund at the university · Launching Fall 2026, this fund will be the first student-led VC at UChicago. Built the entire organizational structure from scratch, overseeing hiring, fundraising, deal sourcing, and investment operations.

### Midway Ventures - FreshX Engagement
Pricing and strategic analysis for a Techstars-backed logistics startup · Worked on pricing modeling and strategic analysis for FreshX, a supply chain logistics startup. Won 1st place in the UChicago Ideathon Competition, judged by TikTok, Forum Ventures, Cisco, and others.

### Eckhart Consulting - Digital Sports Platform
GTM strategy for a $31B global platform launching cobrand credit card products · Provided advisory services for a major digital sports platform entering credit card products. Scoped comprehensive GTM strategy covering customer segmentation, pricing, customer attraction and conversion, and market analysis.

## Skills

LLM-Based Assistants, Agentic Tools, Claude, Codex, Devin, SQL, Excel, Slack, Google Workspace, English (Fluent), Norwegian (Fluent), French, Spanish, Growth Operations, Venture Capital, Product Strategy, Business Development

## Credentials

- **Advanced Open Water Diver** — PADI
- **A Levels: A* in Maths, A* in Physics, A* in Chemistry, A* in French** — UCAS (issued 2024-08)

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