Greg Kim

President

at Ocean Heights Ventures, LLC

Greg Kim is President at Ocean Heights Ventures, a leading strategic advisory firm serving CEOs, Boards and private equity firms. He leverages his experiences in scaling and selling multiple tech companies and advising countless others in both B2B and B2C arenas. His value creation activities have covered a wide spectrum including corporate strategy, GTM, performance marketing platforms, AI initiatives, business intelligence platforms, and both buy-side and sell-side M&A. He also provides diligence support for various venture capital and private equity firms. Education: UCLA MBA. Wharton Undergrad. Harvard-Westlake alum.

California

AI & Data Science, Consumer FinTech, DTC (Direct-to-Consumer), FinTech Enterprise, HR Tech, Media & Entertainment, SaaS & B2B Marketplace, Social Media & Community Platforms

Business StrategyDigital TransformationGTMMergers and Acquisitions (M&A)Performance MarketingRevenue GrowthStrategic Partnerships

Articles by Greg Kim

7 Steps to Build a Product That Sells Itself

In our latest session from the Mucker Growth Series featuring Ethan Smith from Graphite, we explored AEO, a significant new approach for optimizing visibility in AI-driven search, particularly relevant as...

The Founder’s Mental Health Playbook: What I Learned After Nearly Burning Out

A hard-won guide to staying mentally healthy while building a startup I founded Stitcher, the podcast platform, in 2007 and ran it for seven years until we sold in 2014....

Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) for Early Stage Companies

Startup Guide to AI Visibility: Be the Brand ChatGPT Recommends

Introduction Today, users aren’t just searching on Google. They’re asking ChatGPT, Claude, Google’s Gemini, Perplexity, and other AI systems for advice. AI visibility is the new frontier of brand awareness....

Practical Uses of AI & Automation for Startup Operations

In a recent Mucker Growth Series session, we invited Rock Vitale, Founder & CEO of Easie, to share how he’s helped early-stage teams move from manual, fragmented workflows to streamlined,...

2025 New York Tech Week Recap Of Mucker Sessions

Last week during New York Tech Week 2025, we joined more than 1,000 events hosted by founders, investors, and VCs. This post is a full Mucker recap of the three...