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    Christian Talmage

    Christian Talmage

    Stanford alum. Over 13 years of product & design leadership. Built multiple businesses from 0-1. Prev cofounded Oliver Space: $56M tot. funding, 100+ employees.

    COO Mountain View Stanford University '15
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    Experience
    Dispatch Goods
    Dispatch Goods
    Chief Product Officer 2024 - Present (over 2 years)
    The most trusted brands in D2C Meal & Grocery (incl. CookUnity, The Rounds, Misfits Market, Thistle) and Commercial Food Services (incl. Compass Group & Guckenheimer)... more rely on Dispatch Goods for their packaging. Our circular supply chain model offers three key benefits:

    - Delights customers (higher conv. rates, higher avg. order value, and greater retention)
    - Saves money (typ. 10%-20% cheaper than single use alternatives)
    - Achieves sustainability goals (66% fewer CO2 emissions, 80% less water use, many millions of products diverted from the waste stream already).

    Notes:
    - Hired and coaching team of senior executives across all major functions
    - Leading product strategy through business transformation and new market discovery
    - Leading KPI and OKR definition both org-wide and at the department level
    - Leading technology and operations teams responsible for more than 200% increase in manufacturing output while maintaining existing labor spend (prior to equipment upgrades)
    - Increased engineering velocity 188% above baseline
    - Improved software reliability by a factor of 2.87, and completed thorough overhaul of data systems
    Neptune
    Neptune
    Cofounder / CEO 2022 - 2024 (over 1 year)
    Climate Intelligence. Neptune designs and builds custom AI tools primarily for climate technology companies. Clients included a number of venture capital firms, research/data... more science, conservation, supply chain and robotic agtech companies.

    Areas of focus:
    - AI Applications - Agents, LLMs, RAG, Image Analysis
    - Enterprise workflow and operational optimization
    - Industrial automation and applied robotics
    - Data science and visualization
    Oliver Space
    Oliver Space
    Cofounder 2018 - 2022 (about 4 years)
    Circular ecommerce and logistics for furniture. Led Product and Design of the core technology behind our seamless shopping, delivery and returns experience. Built company... more from the ground up and scaled beyond our Series B - $56M total funding, 100+ employees, well into double digit ARR. Backed by Mayfield and many others.

    Notes:
    - Hired exec team and mentored across all functions. Especially design, engineering and product
    - Identified high impact business needs, and drove strategic decisions
    - Owned suite of internal products designed for customer management, warehouse management, last mile, supply chain, and payments.
    - Owned scaling of infrastructure and backend systems through period of hyper growth
    - Led consumer facing product features resulting in significant business impact: (+69% Average order value, +49% Revenue retention, +33% User retention, and many more)
    - Led / managed a wide array of cross functional teams
    - Personally designed several iterations of the early product and brand execution

    Oliver Space reinvented the furnishing experience by offering customers free delivery & assembly, payments over time, and making it incredibly easy to swap out your pieces for a new style. We offered a high quality, but operationally intensive service at a fraction of the cost born by our competitors.
    Boom.tv
    Boom.tv
    VP Product 2016 - 2018 (about 2 years)
    Led Product for esports tournament platform and community engagement software. Used by 48 of top 100 gaming influencers and viewed by hundreds of thousands of subscribers... more daily. Backed by First Round Capital and many others.
    River Studios
    River Studios
    Director of Product Design 2015 - 2016 (about 1 year)
    Led Product and Design of interactive VR experiences for world class entertainment brands. Clients included: Bjork, Coldplay, The Kardashians, NBC Universal, Denver Broncos,... more The Black Eyed Peas, Sacramento Kings, Ludacris and more.
    Threshold Ventures
    Threshold Ventures
    Fellow 2014 - 2015 (over 1 year)
    William Rawn Associates, Architects
    William Rawn Associates, Architects
    Architect 2010 - 2013 (almost 3 years)
    A 22 year old designing commercial buildings for nationally renowned architecture firm. Learning by doing. Owned design development and construction of Suny Alfred Student... more Leadership Center.
    NASA
    NASA
    Research Scientist: Intern 2007 - 2008 (over 1 year)
    Building mathematical models for liquid hydrogen fueling systems and particles entrained in supersonic gas flows.
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    Boom.tv, River Studios, NASA, William Rawn Associates, Architects, Threshold Ventures, Oliver Space, Neptune, Dispatch Goods
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    About
    Achievements

    Owned technology, data and organizational overhaul of Series A supply chain & manufacturing startup. Led teams responsible for more than tripling manufacturing output while maintaining fixed cost. Results achieved through mix of technology, people and process improvements and delivered in advance of large equipment upgrades. Expertise in circular economy and using technology for workflow/process optimization.

    Built and scaled two businesses from 0-1. Founded an ecommerce and logistics business (www.oliver.space) where I designed, built and managed our suite of products beyond Series B ($56M total funding, 100+ employees).

    Created esports tournament software used by nearly every one of Twitch's top 50 live streamers. Underlying technology built using computer vision.

    Designed interactive VR experiences for Bjork and many more prominent musicians and athletes.

    At 22 I became the lead architect for a 68,000 sq.ft. commercial building.

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
    Skills
    Product Strategy Design Thinking Entrepreneurship Brand Design and Strategy Product Management Product Design UI/UX Design Leadership Org Design Team Building Qualitative and Quantitative Research Computer Vision
    Locations
    San Francisco San Francisco Bay Area
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