Y Combinator
Visiting Partner
Helping founders make great companies.
Brad Flora
Group Partner at Y Combinator
Group Partner at Y Combinator
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Experience
Director, Business Development
Managing relationships with developers, creators, publishers and other people who care about the Internet for Brave Software.
Sr. Director of Product Management
Led product on Marin's display advertising business for two years following their acquisition of Perfect Audience, a product I launched in 2012.
Exit
Founder, CEO, Founder
Launched the first full self-service Facebook retargeting solution for SMBs. I scaled it to $20m in sales in 18 months and sold it to Marin Software after Facebook announced... more they were going to go direct to advertisers and weaken position of partners. We raised $1.1m and sold for $25.5m. The core product was built by 3 people in an apartment in Mountain View in 2012. When we sold we had a team of 14: one sales rep, 3 support reps, one BD person, myself, co-founder and an eng team of 7.
Nowspots
Founder, CEO, Founder
NowSpots was the first product I took to market after raising seed funding from the Knight Foundation in 2010. It was a SaaS tool for creating HTML5 ads that pulled in live... more content from advertisers social media feeds. Basically it was a product that had an inkling of "native advertising" as it would later exist, but that missed the boat. I signed 5 deals with major publishers like Tribune and Hearst, but selling to publishers was clearly a bad biz model so we pivoted to Perfect Audience.
Princeton University
Admissions Officer
I read applications, visited high schools and talked to students and parents about applying to Princeton. It was at times a very intense, interesting job with great perks... more (visiting high schools for weeks was a lot of fun) and at other times a boring job (when you're staring at a pile of middling applications that need to be reviewed over the weekend).
The Washington Post Company
Intern, Slate Magazine
I interned at Slate for 4 months in 2007, working for David Plotz and John Dickerson. I had ample opportunities to write for the magazine and enjoyed seeing the inner workings... more of a major online publications.
Brad, Jenny & Marc
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About
Achievements
Founded and led a SaaS company startup to a $25m+ acquisition.
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What I'm Looking For
SaaS tools aimed at developers. Mobile utilities. Music production/creation plays.
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