Bio
Founder and CEO, TalkMeUp. As a Tepper MBA student, JJ Xu (MBA 2018) took every entrepreneurial course she could find, hoping to fulfill a lifelong dream of being an entrepreneur. She excelled as a James R. Swartz Entrepreneurial Fellow, collecting academic and professional accolades and earning second place at the 2018 McGinnis Venture Competition. Xu is building her competition-winning company, TalkMeUp — an AI-based web app designed to help build communication skills — from a maker space in the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship at the Tepper Quad.