Quick answers
Did Michael Hood co-found Voiceflow?
Yes. True Ventures, which led Voiceflow's seed round, wrote on April 23, 2019 that Voiceflow "was founded in June of 2018 by Toronto-based team Braden Ream, Andrew Lawrence, Tyler Han, and Michael Hood." TechCrunch reported on August 15, 2023 that Ream co-launched Voiceflow alongside Han, Hood and Lawrence.
What is Michael Hood's role today?
Voiceflow's contributor page for Hood, checked September 24, 2026, lists the title co-founder and head of product design. When the seed round was announced, Pulse 2.0 reported on April 28, 2019 that Hood was the company's chief product officer.
How did Voiceflow start?
True Ventures wrote on April 23, 2019 that the four co-founders first made interactive voice stories for kids on Amazon Alexa and built an internal tool to speed that up, then saw that the tool could help anyone create voice apps without writing code.
Has Michael Hood written about conversation design?
Yes. Hood's Voiceflow contributor page, checked September 24, 2026, lists a story dated August 4, 2020, "How successful teams are tackling the hardest conversation design challenges", on the harder problems conversation design teams face when building conversational products.