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    Ilias Beshimov

    Ilias Beshimov

    Product Management Leader and Serial Entrepreneur w/ 2 exits| Formerly Product Founder @ Celential.ai, First PM @ Scopely | ex Zynga, Good.co | Harvard Alum

    Co Founder Los Angeles Harvard University
    venturebeat.com
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    Experience
    Academia.edu
    Academia.edu
    GM, Product Management 2026 - Present (8 months)
    ClassHour
    ClassHour
    Product Management and Growth 2024 - Present (over 2 years)
    Product + growth
    Celential.ai
    Exit
    Celential.ai
    Chief Product Officer 2017 - 2023 (over 6 years)
    - Raised $10M from GSR and other investors
    - Grew to XM in ARR and 80 team members
    - Built world's largest talent graph of engineers - 15M and an overall professional... more graph of 100M people.
    - Created AI-powered fully automated recruitment platform
    - Customers from early stage VC funded startups to Fortune 1000
    Good&Co
    Good&Co
    VP of Product & Growth
    - Grew audience to 1.5M from 100k
    - 4x increase in retention and 6x increase in virality
    - Defined roadmap, and manage product & growth teams
    - Managed dev relations... more and got app featured by Google Play (Top Apps to Thrive, Top Apps for Job Search, New + Updated Apps) and App Store (Top Apps for Grads)
    Scopely
    Scopely
    Senior Product Manager
    - PM for games, revenue, live ops tools and analytics.
    - Introduced Live Ops to existing titles and tripled ARPDAU in the first six months
    - Launched Mini Golf Match... more - over 10M downloads
    Zynga
    Zynga
    Product Manager
    Growth and revenue PM. Team lead for FB platform and Zynga central tech.
    Burner (Ad Hoc Labs)
    Burner (Ad Hoc Labs)
    Product and Growth Advisor
    Founder
     
    Employee
    Burner (Ad Hoc Labs), Zynga, Scopely, Good&Co, Celential.ai, ClassHour, Academia.edu
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    About
    Achievements

    Co-Founded and exited Celential.ai to Wellfound - raised $10M from GSR, grew to XM in ARR and 80 team members. Grew Good&Co product to 1.5M users and increased retention by 4x. Launched from scratch 2 mobile apps, both of which reached #1 spot in App Store and achieved 30M+ in downloads. Managed 7 mobile and web products with $100M+ in revenue.

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    Skills
    Product Development Business Strategy Product Roadmaps Fundraising Product Management User Experience Design Product Marketing Product Strategy Sales and Marketing Investor Pitch Decks Pitching to Angel Investors Mobile Mobile Application Design Game Design Social Games Game Development Health Care Information Technology A/B Testing Data Analysis Web Analytics SCRUM Project Management Advertising Consulting Management Product Design Recruiting Product Linkedin Start-Ups Analytics Services Bilingual Retention Innovation Education Economics Growth Hacking Product Led Growth (PLG) PLG PLG Strategies Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Algorithms, Deep Learning, Artificial Neural Networks Machine Learning / Artificial Intelligence Artifical Intelligence LLMs Large Language Models (LLMs) LLMs, Langchain, Llama-Index, Huggingface GenAI Generative AI (GenAI) LLMs/GenAI Growth Strategy and Execution Innovation & Growth Revenue Growth Marketing and Growth Strategy
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    Chicago New York City San Diego San Francisco Silicon Valley San Francisco Bay Area Boston Seattle Los Angeles Atlanta
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