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    Andy Jagoe

    Andy Jagoe

    0 to 1 builder with multiple exits

    Entrepreneur Denver University Of Califor...
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    0 to 1 Product and Engineering Leader 2018 - Present (over 8 years)
    • New product consulting for AngelList Ventures (reporting to CEO)
    • Built and launched small business text messaging business for Ooma (NASDAQ: OOMA)
    • Built decentralized... more analytics platform and won grants from Filecoin Foundation and Ceramic
    • Built Alertcaster (like Google Alerts for Farcaster), voted one of top apps on Farcaster
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    Angel Investor 2013 - Present (over 13 years)
    • Invested in over 100 software startups with a focus on the future of finance, including Chipper Cash (Ribbit Capital and Bezos Expeditions followed) and Jeeves (Y Combinator,... more Andreessen Horowitz)
    • Seed investment in Calm (last post-money $2 billion)
    Fireside
    Fireside
    Founder and CEO 2013 - 2017 (almost 5 years)
    With Fireside, enjoying all your pictures and videos is as easy as taking them.
    • Re-imagined digital photo frame and built device specifically for life’s whitespace moments
    •... more Created “Pandora for your Memories” service on proprietary photo/video crawler + recommendations
    • Built world-class team of 8 including software & hardware engineering, UX design, industrial design
    Zvents (sold to eBay)
    Zvents (sold to eBay)
    VP Product and Engineering 2010 - 2012 (about 2 years)
    Turned around and shepherded search startup to an exit (my mandate when hired). Replaced both VP Product and VP Engineering (two separate roles) and rebuilt team from 5 to... more 25. Operated event search used by Bing and all US newspaper groups—touching 75 million unique people/year.
    3Jam (sold to Skype)
    3Jam (sold to Skype)
    Founder and CEO 2005 - 2009 (about 4 years)
    Created group messaging service used by millions of people and with viral distribution engineered in. Recruited, led and managed a world-class team of 20 across all business... more and technical functions. Raised $5.5 million in venture funding across two rounds of funding from NEA and Norwest Ventures.
    Netservice Ventures
    Netservice Ventures
    Partner 2004 - 2005 (about 1 year)
    Early stage seed investments in 10 startups (including TubeMogul and Aggregate Knowledge). Board level strategy consulting and OnePhone/VoWiFi product concept development... more for NTT in Japan.
    Palm
    Exit
    Palm
    Product Manager 2003 (about 1 month)
    Drove key user interface improvements in Palm’s email product. Developed product concepts for new entertainment (music and video) focused wireless devices
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    • Startup turnaround (sold to eBay)
    • Startup founder (sold to Skype)
    • Web3 consulting for AngelList Ventures (reporting to CEO)

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    Start-Ups Product Management Entrepreneurship Product Strategy Business Strategy Mobile Leadership Management Product Development Java Javascript Python Cloud Computing AWS Databases Linux Android Objective-C Search Agile React.js Node.js Blockchain Cryptocurrencies Ethereum Solidity
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    San Francisco Silicon Valley Palo Alto
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