Henry Williams

I started in finance — trading floors at Lehman Brothers (yes, that one), Barclays, and Morgan Stanley, building real-time systems where milliseconds actually mattered.

Then I switched to journalism. Got a Google Scholarship for a Master's at the University of Hong Kong, worked at the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones, and spent years figuring out how to make newsrooms work like product organizations.

Now at Reuters, I lead consumer product — the apps, the web, the things millions of people actually touch. I got there by shipping fast and measuring what worked: a $1M mobile subscription ARR in 4 weeks, a podcast on track for $9M ARR, AI features that outperformed everything before them.

I also build my own things. I founded Cleartext Labs because I kept running into the same problem: important conversations happen, and then there's no reliable record. Transcord handles calls. CEDAR handles co-parenting emails. Both are tools for people who need the truth documented, not remembered.