Ben Mathes

Experience

Head of AI 2026 - Present (9 months)

New AI tools to both (1) lower the cost of developing a firm informational and decision operating system and (2) unlock new capabilities to aid with fuzzy pattern matching... more

Google

Product Manager 2019 - 2026 (over 6 years)

PM in Google Machine Learning. Model and Data analysis, tracing and tracking ML workflows. Artifact interoperability in ecosystems of diverse tooling and user needs. Side... more

Thiel Macro

Tech Lead 2017 - 2018 (over 1 year)

Information architectures for good judgement when millions are on the line. Data ingestion pipelines, API products for quants, dataviz/analysis products for discretionary... more

Greylock

Tech Lead 2014 - 2016 (about 2 years)

Focused (2-5 people) intel team. Designed and built 5+ products in communications, analysis, operation, and prediction for the investment and operations teams. Conception,... more

AngelList

Tech Lead 2012 - 2017 (almost 5 years)

Advised and periodic project work. E.g. Design and build a clear and fair employee equity package, offered on the AngelList platform. Automate series-seed and convertible... more

Readyforce

engineer 2010 - 2011 (almost 2 years)

Engineer #5. Designed and built several large, loosely-coupled subsystems: interview scheduler, applicant filter/sort/quantification, questionnaires, analytics dashboards.

Rockyou

eng/PM/analytics 2008 - 2010 (over 1 year)

Overhauled opensocial application and tripled usage, engagement, and cross-sell metrics. Sped up generic cross-shard queries 40%. Built internal analytics dashboards. Interviewed... more

Athenahealth

engineer 2006 - 2008 (about 2 years)

Created tool that reduced time on a recurring development task from 8 hours to 10 minutes. On small internal team that built a new product critical to 2007 IPO. Architect... more

Employee

Rockyou, Readyforce, AngelList, Greylock, Athenahealth, Thiel Macro, Google, Felicis Ventures

Education

About

Achievements

@greylock-partners: Deal analysis. Internal, algorithmic deal+talent tracking/sourcing. Mobile process tools.

@AngelList: Close a seed round online, generate PDFs with industry-standard docs, and no legal fees. Works with both convertible debt and equity.

@Readyforce: distributed recruiting subsystems: interview scheduler, applicant filter/sort/quantification, questionnaires, analytics dashboards.

@Rockyou: Cross-shard queries 40% more efficient. Overhauled UX+Code of 10M+ user opensocial application and tripled usage, engagement, and cross-sells. Rebuilt internal analytics.

@Athenahealth: Designed+built tool that reduced time on recurring development task from 8 hours to 10 minutes. Co-built EMR, a new product line.

Describe the most impressive thing you've done.

Skills

Ruby jQuery HTML MySQL Javascript Data Visualization Ruby on Rails Product Development Product Discovery Culture Data Modelling Scaling Web Applications Metrics A/B Testing SCRUM SCSS / SASS Startup Management Coffeescript Backbone.js Clojure Angular.JS Swift Mobile Application Design Parse.com Retentioneering R Frontend Development Full Stack Development Mobile Development Software Architecture Web Development Product Management Product Design Business Strategy Strategic Planning Venture Capital Generative AI Machine Learning

Locations

New York City London

Q&A

What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?

Antifragile

What's your favorite non-business book?

Master of the Senate

If money were not an issue, what would you be doing right now?

Skiing, coding, and learning math.

What words of advice would you give your younger self?

Don't play so many video games.

What's the best way for people to get in touch with you?

Ben Mathes

Collaboration/Analytics/Workflows in AI/Healthcare/startups/VC/AI. @felicis @google @greylockvc @angellist @athenahealth @thielmacro. CS masters 2y early.