Henry Robinson

Experience

Exit

Xtime

Principal Product Manager 2014 - Present (about 12 years)

Ariba

Senior Product Manager 2010 - 2014 (almost 4 years)

eBay

Category Manager 2007 - 2010 (about 3 years)

Employee

eBay, Xtime, Ariba

Advisor

SYNCFAB, DestiNeed

Education

Projects

US Patent US8429020B2 Currency Weighted Cross Boarder Listing Exposure

Use spot currency prices to drive adverting exposure

Inventor, Product Manager · A method and a system for currency weighted cross border listing exposure utilize a favorability factor that may be… · More

About

Achievements

Shipped several innovative, award-winning, commercially lucrative products in several industries including eCommerce, Enterprise Software, CRM, Customer Retention and Automotive. Recognized for innovation via 2 granted patents and 2 more pending.

Describe the most impressive thing you've done.

Skills

Adobe Photoshop Agile Automation Business Development C Customer Relationship Management Engineering Inventor Management Marketing Management MBA Mechanical Engineering Middleware Planning Pricing Product Design Product Launch Product Management Product Marketing Research Ruby on Rails Pragmatic Marketing Certified SCRUM Pragmatic Product Management Product Strategy Ariba Automotive Java Objective-C WEB Web Technologies Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) CSS HTML Integrity SAP SQL

Locations

Silicon Valley San Francisco

Q&A

What's your favorite non-business book?

Top 3
1. Cosmos by Carl Sagan
2. Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
3. Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey

What words of advice would you give your younger self?

1. Understand the time value of money.
2. Learn what Ikigai means and what it is for you
3. Learn how to be mindful
4. Take more risks
5. Start now

What's your super power?

Finding the flaw in conventional wisdom.

What words of wisdom do you live by?

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. — Albert Bartlett

What was the most impactful class you took in school?

Applied International Economics at IESE with Dr. Pedro Videla

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

Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin

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

Email, SMS or Signal

What's something you wish you had done years earlier?

Learned to meditate

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

Spinning records in a loft with close friends.

Which founders or startups do you most admire?

Naval Ravikant

Henry Robinson

Track-record of delivering game-changing products in e-commerce, mobile, and SaaS.

Shipped several innovative, award-winning, commercially lucrative products in several industries including eCommerce, Enterprise Software, CRM, Customer Retention and Automotive. Recognized for innovation via 2 granted patents and 2 more pending.