Zette

Bringing down the barriers to real news.

Zette is a browser extension that allows you to access premium online content behind article paywalls.

🗞️ About Us

Zette is a venture-backed, early-stage media tech startup whose mission is to bring down the barriers to real news by increasing access to journalism for all, while empowering publishers and creators to continue producing high quality work. Founded by Yehong Zhu, ex-Forbes journalist and Twitter PM.

• The problem: Fake news is free, but real news is not. In 2020, media outlets are forced to churn out clickbait headlines, surviving off razor-thin online ad margins—or to gate their content behind paywalls, effectively turning the internet into a walled garden.

• The solution: Product innovation in the media technology industry has been anemic for a very long time. To access information, you have to subscribe to dozens of publishers at once—even if you don't regularly read most of them. Until now. Our product solves this problem by providing one paid account to access all the news you'd want to read.

• Our mission is to democratize information by making high-quality online content accessible to everyone. We believe that better access starts with 1) bringing down paywalls for individual articles, 2) giving readers access to a wide variety of vetted journalistic sources, and 3) compensating publishers fairly in the process.

💖 Benefits

We like to treat our employees well.

• Meaningful early equity stake.

• Competitive salary for startups at our stage.

• Generous benefits (healthcare, vision, dental, 401k).

• The opportunity to see a startup scale from pre-seed upwards.

• The ability to shape the early team culture around values that matter to you.

• Awesome coworkers and fun social events (i.e. company offsites, virtual game nights).

• For anything else—just ask and we'll see what we can do 😉