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Joe Alicata

Joe Alicata co-founded Ava, building an AI household assistant that carries family tasks across conversations, memory and human approvals. His earlier product and engineering work spans Google, Vox Media, Motorsport Network and ESPN, and he writes about earning user trust through staged autonomy.

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Based in: New York City
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AVA (hiava.app)

Jan 2025 — Present

CTO + Co-Founder

Motorsport Network

Sep 2023 — May 2025

Chief Product & Technology Officer

Google

Jan 2021 — Apr 2023

GPM, Image Search & Product Management Lead, Visual Search

Wizeline

Aug 2019 — Dec 2019

GM Stello (b2c conversational ui platform)

Vox Media

Feb 2017 — Aug 2019

Chief Product Officer

Chartbeat

Mar 2013 — Apr 2014

Principal Product Owner

ESPN

Oct 2011 — Mar 2013

Sr. Director Product Development

University of Hartford

Bachelors, Software

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Progressive Trust and Agentic Consumer Apps

Joe sets out staged autonomy, reversible actions, confidence gates and measures for earning consumer trust in AI assistants.

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