Bio
Cofounder of Zo Computer. Joined Stripe early (2015), where he worked for over 8 years. Founding engineer on Terminal, Stripe's in-person payments arm. Ben's cofounder, Rob Cheung, was the first engineer at Substack. They met on the early Venmo team in 2013, and they've reunited to build Zo.
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Ben Guo is the co-founder of Zo Computer and a longtime Stripe/Venmo engineer (founding engineer of Stripe Terminal) who built Zo's MVP largely with AI, by his own account writing ~500k lines of code in two months. His talks and writing deliver concrete 'velocity coding' workflows -- plan-first prompting, a codebase 'immune system' of automated checks -- alongside a bigger-picture argument for personal cloud computing as a new device category.
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GitHub
@0thernet- 0thernet/MusicKit★ 621A framework for composing and transforming music in Swift.
- 0thernet/BZGFormViewController★ 407Objective-C forms with inline validation.
- 0thernet/witchcraft.computer★ 9Tech tarot deck (web toy).
- 0thernet/scroll.chat★ 6Add a live chat overlay to ~any page.
- zocomputer/selectronorg★ 49AI web parser library + CLI that generates and caches parsers (no LLM calls at runtime).
Recent writing (2)
- Velocity Coding (not Vibe Coding) · blog · Dec 2025
- It's time for the computer to change. · blog · Aug 2025
Podcasts & interviews (3)
- #101: Why everyone should have an AI-powered cloud computer | Ben Guo (Cofounder @ Zo) · Supra Insider · Mar 2026
- Ben Guo, Cofounder @ Zo Computer | The Cloud PC for the AI Era · Strictly From Nowhere (Cause of a Kind) · Apr 2026
- Why everyone should have an AI-powered cloud computer | Ben Guo (Cofounder @ Zo) · Supra Insider · Mar 2026