Joshua Xu

Co-founder and CEO

HeyGen

Joshua Xu is the Co-Founder and CEO of HeyGen, an AI video creation platform transforming how businesses tell their stories. With over 60,000 enterprise customers, including HubSpot, McDonald’s, and The Tennis Channel, HeyGen enables organizations to create videos 10x faster, localize them in 175+ languages and dialects, and personalize them at scale. Under Joshua’s leadership, HeyGen’s suite of innovative tools—spanning video, avatar, translation, and editing capabilities—has become indispensable for industries like marketing, corporate training, sales, and e-learning. Since founding HeyGen in 2020, Joshua has guided the company to rapid growth, establishing it as a global leader in AI-powered video solutions. His unwavering commitment to making visual storytelling more accessible drives HeyGen’s mission to push the boundaries of AI innovation. Today, HeyGen’s transformative technology is used across diverse industries, helping organizations of all sizes meet the rising demand for scalable, high-quality video content. Before HeyGen, Joshua spent six years as a key engineer at Snapchat, where he advanced ad ranking, machine learning platforms, and computational photography. He holds a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University and is an expert in large-scale machine learning, computer vision, and generative AI.