Experience

Polymail

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CEO/Product Guy

  • Jun 2021 - 2 years 7 months

  Nashville, Tennessee, United States After investing in and watching the Polymail team (YC S16) create a beautifully simple email client for busy professionals, in mid 2021 I acquired the company to take a stab at building the product and its community myself. Are you a fanatical email user? I’d love your feedback.



Various Projects

• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Product

  • Jan 2007 - Dec 2022

  San Francisco Bay Area I help startups define, prototype, and launch new products and optimize those ready for scale. - led product definition for a fin-tech B2B product, resulting in multiple LOIs and a massive $8MM seed round in first 30 days - Implemented a lightweight experimentation framework, roughly tripled conversion/revenue per user, recruited and built product/eng team in ~6 mo, as part of a product team turnaround for a series A-funded consumer fin-tech startup - Led turnaround of 50-person… Show more I help startups define, prototype, and launch new products and optimize those ready for scale. - led product definition for a fin-tech B2B product, resulting in multiple LOIs and a massive $8MM seed round in first 30 days - Implemented a lightweight experimentation framework, roughly tripled conversion/revenue per user, recruited and built product/eng team in ~6 mo, as part of a product team turnaround for a series A-funded consumer fin-tech startup - Led turnaround of 50-person startup for billionaire owner of Lonely Planet, shipped stalled product in first 30 days as interim CEO - Launched Founderkit (unbiased reviews of startup tools from experienced founders) in 2017, which was one of the top product launches of the year on Product Hunt - Consulted for HBO Silicon Valley Season 3 as a Lead Technical Consultant - Led website e-commerce team for the launch of a blockbuster hardware product, sold $45MM in preorders in first 2 months - Contributed to product marketing for YC-backed Readyforzero, a tool for helping people reduce their credit card debt - Launched Dotherightthing.com, which was featured in the NY Times, SF Chronicle, TechCrunch, and Mashable, and was an early approach to connecting companies and consumers before the popularization of social media. Show less



Brokerkit

• Co-founder and CEO

  • May 2017 - Feb 2019

  Lead product, UX, design, sales, and support to build the first gorgeous, intuitive and now fastest growing recruiting and retention CRM for real estate brokers. Bootstrapped the product from idea to first client in 6 weeks, profitability in 3 months, and acquisition in 1.5 years. Hired and trained sales and support team which now now serves 70k agents at more than 225 offices across the US and Canada.



Yardsale (consumer marketplace)

• Co-founder and CEO

  • Jan 2011 - Jan 2015

  San Francisco Bay Area Built YC-backed Yardsale, which was a top 5 app in the Lifestyle category with eBay and Amazon. Our team then launched FOBO, inspired by the immediate nature of the best transactions on the platform, with local, near-instant auctions of electronics. FOBO grew quickly to a $1mm run rate just in San Francisco in its first few months and both products had users and sales within 2 months.



TriplePundit

• United States
• Internet News
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Partner

  • Apr 2008 - Dec 2011

  Helped bootstrap, build revenue generating products, partnerships from side project to influential niche business media company supporting my other two partners.



Allergan

• Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Management Consultant

  • Jan 2005 - Mar 2006

  Irvine, CA Recruited to join an amazing team of senior ex-Boston Consulting Group independent consultants to help drive organizational and process changes for a 200 person organization, lead the turnaround of a derailed software implementation project.



Princeton Review

• GMAT Instructor

  • Jan 2003 - Feb 2006

  Irvine, CA To satisfy my craving to teach and learn, I taught GMAT strategy and fundamentals course at Princeton Review, after taking the test myself. I consistently received some of the highest reviews from and score improvement results for students in the region.



Boeing

• United States
• Aviation & Aerospace
• 700 & Above Employee

• Contracts Administrator, Business Analyst

  • Feb 2003 - Mar 2005

  Managed contract administration and communication with government customers. Designed new strategies, led the implementation of program to create an environment of involved, challenged employees and to improve team culture across large divisions of the company.



Cutler Group, LLC

• Capital Markets
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Assistant Trader

  • Jun 2002 - Oct 2002

  Executed hedge trades, reviewed stock and option trades for pricing and risk management. Studied advanced option trading techniques, theory, and trading floor regulations.