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    David Hammer

    David Hammer

    Experienced product-oriented founder. I've founded and led teams to success in lots of different domains (ads, politics, knowledge).

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    Experience
    Emissary
    Emissary
    Founder
    Google
    Google
    Employee
    Hawkfish
    Hawkfish
    SVP Product, Research, Insights 2019 - 2021 (over 1 year)
    Led product, research, insights teams for Hawkfish, Mike Bloomberg's political-tech group. Set the product vision for foundational/transformational pieces of technology, rapidly... more built out multiple teams (total org size of 60+).
    Emissary
    Emissary
    Founder & CEO 2013 - 2019 (almost 7 years)
    Solo founder of Emissary, bringing the expert network to enterprise sales. Navigated through pivots to find product-market fit, grew company to 70+ people, raised >$15m... more in funding, drove to nearly $10m in ARR before bringing in sales-focused CEO to scale.
    Google
    Google
    Product 2006 - 2012 (almost 6 years)
    Founded Google's DSP team (now DV360). DV360 is how large ad buyers buy media through Google and accounts for a substantial portion of Google's revenue at this point. I founded... more the product with 2 engineers, set the charter product vision, managed the acquisition of Invite Media, drove the rebuild of the product.
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    Emissary
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    Google, Google, Emissary, Hawkfish
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    About
    Achievements

    Founded one of Google's most critical ads products and drove it to success.
    Founded a company in a completely novel category and took it to nearly $10m in ARR and $20m in funds raised. Hired and managed an org of 70 people.
    Led and scaled a political technology team in the middle of a presidential campaign. Shipped meaningful tech in the most chaotic environment imaginable.
    Wherever I've gone, I've tackled uncertain and challenging spaces and created strong cultures along with me.

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
    Skills
    Management Startups Politics Advertising Product Management
    Locations
    New York City
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