I'm Patricia Tang, and I’m an MBA student at Wharton, where I’m a Joseph Wharton Fellow and a Moelis Fellow, and an early-stage investor at Virta Ventures (early-stage VC investing in equity-light climate tech) and The MBA Fund (early-stage VC that helps founders from the top startup-producing universities create legendary companies).
In my spare time, I co-founded and run **Center City Ventures,** a VC investment club funded and run by the Wharton Class of 2026, as its Co-Founder and Managing Partner. CCV is the Wharton MBA’s first class fund.
Previously, I worked at secondhand fashion company ThredUp, where I was the first IC Product Manager on ThredUp New Ventures, a business unit at ThredUp dedicated to zero-to-one innovations for long-term business growth.
At ThredUp, a bulk of my work was in building and scaling ThredUp’s B2B recommerce venture, **Resale-as-a-Service (RaaS)**. I built RaaS’ go-to-market, onboarding, and customer success motions zero-to-one and worked directly with the awesome teams at J.Crew, Madewell, Tommy Hilfiger, H&M, and other top apparel brands to integrate resale into their eCommerce and omnichannel ecosystems. I also led product strategy and development for the Resale-as-a-Service platform, collaborating with our stakeholders to build features that helped brands take advantage of recommerce’s customer loyalty and sustainability benefits. Over my tenure, I grew our enterprise customer base 400%+ and earned Resale-as-a-Service recognition in the TIME100 and the Good Housekeeping Sustainable Innovation Awards.
As New Ventures PM, I also incubated and shipped other innovations for ThredUp’s Core Marketplace, including an MPN-driven data engine helping ThredUp serve up relevant secondhand listings across the Internet to customers shopping for brand-specific styles (think “Madewell Balloon Jeans”) and prototypes for ThredUp’s first generative AI features.
Prior to ThredUp, I worked as a strategy consultant at PwC Strategy&, where I learned and wrote about product development in a different (and perhaps more delicious) lens, and on the investment team of **Amino Capital** ($1B+ early-stage fund investing in data-driven ventures), ****where I led due diligence for investments in Kyros.ai and Startplaying.games (YC W20).
I graduated from Northwestern University with a triple-major Bachelor’s in Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences (MMSS), Economics, and Music. During school, I worked on new product development at Curology, the direct-to-consumer skincare company, conducting customer research and whitespace analysis to outline specs for awesome, skin-friendly additions to Curology’s skincare line (here’s an example). I also worked as a student journalist, leading Northwestern’s business publication the Northwestern Business Review (NBR) as Editor-in-Chief and writing for NBR and Northwestern’s fashion magazine, STITCH.
I started my life as a classical viola player and studied at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Here’s a peek into my past life on NPR’s From the Top. I don’t play my viola so much anymore, but I’m still keen to share classical music with my community: helping start and lead a music education nonprofit and teaching free music appreciation classes are a few ways I’ve done so. My experience growing up as an artist in Silicon Valley instilled in me a simultaneous appreciation of artistry and technological innovation, something that drives my passion for tech that blends art and science to delight customers and drive societal change.
What else? I’m a recent East Coast transplant and am getting over the trauma of dressing up to go outside and go to the gym. I love to run in the summer and picked up skiing for the winter to combat my seasonal depression (carving tips welcome). I’m a slow food enthusiast and a sucker for a seasonal, locally-sourced meal. And, I love a ridiculously obscure acronym or text abbreviation, YKWIM?