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    Ben Schaechter

    Ben Schaechter

    Co-Founder @ Vantage. Previous Product @amazon-web-services and @digitalocean. Previously built and sold @gopollgo to Yahoo. Helped build CrunchBase at @techcrunch

    Product Manager Seattle Creighton University '10
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    21 Open Positions · $105k–$327k/yr
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    GoPollGo
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    Portfolio
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    Vantage
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    TechCrunch
    TechCrunch
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    Yahoo
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    DigitalOcean
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    Portfolio
    A mobile-first stock tracking app
    Product Manager, Back-End Engineer, Redis, MongoDB, Ruby/Sinatra · Portfolio gives you relevant, fresh financial news about companies you're… · More interested in and reports about your holdings. Create a watch list to get updates about your stocks. Input your trades to get live-updating reports of your portfolio.

    Read financial news from your favorite sources all in one place organized by company. See Top Stories surfaced to know exactly what is happening at any time for any company. Share news on social media.

    FAVORITE FEATURES
    • Real-time updating stock tickers and charts, including after hours and pre-market.
    • Create a personalized watch-list of stocks you're interested in.
    • Fresh, relevant and meaningful news for all the companies you care about from all the best sources.
    • Add your trades and get reports of how your stocks are performing including portfolio composition, percent gain, dollar gain, and more.
    • Get a single summary push notification when the market closes about how your portfolio performed versus the markets.
    • Intraday price alert notifications: Get push notifications when stocks have large swings.
    • Passcode and Touch ID support to protect your information.

    OTHER FEATURES
    • Import your portfolio from third party sources.
    • Know when the next earnings call is for a stock and get push notifications when earnings are released.
    • Mutual fund support -- over 20,000 mutual funds being tracked.
    • No account required! No personally identifiable information needed.
    • Free to use and has no advertisements.
    • Share content on social media.
    • Beautiful, modern and intuitive design. No spam. No excess notifications.

    TELL US WHAT YOU THINK
    Let us know your thoughts, good or bad, at [email protected] -- we'll respond to all emails and help you along with any questions you might have!

    I devised the idea for Portfolio, came up with the feature set, and built the entire back-end.
     
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    Sole developer on CrunchBase prior to AOL acquisition.
    Built and sold GoPollGo to Yahoo.
    Lead PM for Compute at DigitalOcean.

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
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    Palo Alto New York City
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