Jeff Bargmann

Experience

Self-Employed

Product advisor, small-check angel investor 2018 - Present (over 8 years)

Advising/investing in seed-stage startups in medicine, mental health, education.

MEDICINE
• Franklin - Out-of-network claims, filed for you
• DiaBits - Diabetes... more

University of Michigan Center for Entrepreneurship (CFE)

Advisor 2015 - Present (over 11 years)

Yahoo

Owner: Cross-Property Growth 2016 - 2019 (about 3 years)

Owner of cross-property collaborations between Yahoo Mail/Messenger and Yahoo Sports

Exit

Flickr

Product Lead, Engineering Lead (Post-acquisition) 2014 - 2015 (over 1 year)

Owner of Camera Roll and Uploadr products which came through as part of PhotoDrive aqusition

Exit

PhotoDrive

Founder, Founder/Designer/Developer 2012 - 2014 (over 2 years)

A beautiful, gesture based photo gallery, with 1TB of free space powered by Flickr.
(Acquired by Flickr, 2014)

GameStop

Consultant (Post-acquisition) 2011 - 2012 (over 1 year)

Advising through the transition of our acquired startup "Impulse"

Exit

Stardock Impulse

CTO, Platform Co-Founder 2006 - 2011 (over 4 years)

Games distribution platform (i.e. iTunes for Games) on Windows.
(Acquired by GameStop, 2011)

1UP Industries

Founder, Developer 2010 - Present (almost 16 years)

Independent app developer of Windows productivity tools:
Stardock Fences, Bins, ObjectDock, Dell Dock, others
(Over 15M downloads, 1M DAU)

Founder

PhotoDrive, 1UP Industries

Employee

GameStop, Stardock Impulse, Flickr, Yahoo, Self-Employed

Advisor

University of Michigan Center for Entrepreneurship (CFE)

Education

About

Achievements

Notable achievements:
• Founder/Co-founder of 2 acquired companies (Impulse->Gamestop, 2011; PhotoDrive->Flickr, 2014)
• Author of apps Fences and ObjectDock, reaching over 15M downloads and 1M+ DAU
• Author of Bins, a PC World Top Product of 2011
• Author of the DellDock, an OEM app featured on 30M+ Dell PCs

Product design recognition:
• PCWorld, 2009 — It wasn't five minutes after installing Fences I realized I'd be using it for the rest of my computing life. It's that good.
• TechCrunch, 2013 — The gestures are really natural and intuitive, unlike some apps where you struggle to learn the new interactions. Here, you immediately just get it. And as soon as you do, you realize Apple’s Photos app is lacking.
• The Verge, 2015 — Flickr may have my favorite twist on 3D Touch so far, with a slight change to how peek works. As soon as you try it, you wonder why Apple didn't figure this out in the first place.

Describe the most impressive thing you've done.

Skills

User Experience Design Windows Azure Objective-C iOS Development User Research Full Stack Development Node.js React.js C# C++ CSS Product Management Product Development Product Design UI/UX Design Sketch Financial Analysis Data Analysis Telemetry

Locations

New York City San Francisco

Jeff Bargmann

Author 15M downloaded apps Fences/Bins, Founder @photodrive (acq'd by Flickr), Impulse (acq'd by Gamestop). Product/Eng/Design, Mentor/Advisor/Angel.