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    Jimmy Chen

    Jimmy Chen

    Founder and CEO @propel • Former PM at @facebook, @linkedin • Studied at @stanford-university

    New York City Stanford University
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    Experience
    Propel
    Propel
    Founder
    Propel
    Propel
    Employee
    Meta
    Exit
    Meta
    Product Manager 2012 - 2014 (about 2 years)
    PM for Facebook Groups, the largest group communication platform in the world, used by 500 million people each month. Set roadmaps and executed on projects big and small.... more Over two years, grew product usage by 200M users and grew the team from 4 to 16 engineers.
    LinkedIn
    Exit
    LinkedIn
    Associate Product Manager 2010 - 2012 (about 2 years)
    PM for LinkedIn Events, LinkedIn Polls, and LinkedIn Today.
    Founder
    Propel
    Employee
    LinkedIn, Meta, Propel
    Investor
     
    Incubator
     
    Advisor
     
    Attorney
     
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    Projects
    EasyFoodStamps
    Food stamps enrollment, simplified and optimized for mobile
    Propel's first product was easyfoodstamps.com, a mobile-optimized website that streamlined the application form for food stamps. We launched it in New… · More York and Pennsylvania. As of early 2016, we've put this product in maintenance mode so we can focus on Fresh EBT (though easyfoodstamps.com is still running and helping Pennsylvanians apply for food stamps).
    Ram Mehta
    Shelly Ni
    With Shelly Ni, Ram Mehta
    Fresh EBT
    Bringing the EBT card into the 21st century
    50 million Americans spend about $70 billion through EBT cards every year. The card looks and acts like a debit card, but it lacks the digital features of a… · More modern financial tool - namely, a way to check balance/transaction history on mobile. This app provides those features for free to anyone with an EBT card.

    We shipped in January 2016 in beta, and shipped a redesigned 1.0 in April 2016.
    Jeff Kaiser
    Ram Mehta
    With Ram Mehta, Jeff Kaiser
     
    Education
     
    About
    Achievements

    I led the team that built/maintained a product used by 7% of the global population each month (Facebook Groups).

    I'm published in academic journals for human-robot interaction and for discovering a chemical defense mechanism in ants.

    I once placed 4th in a cooking contest by making chocolate-covered bacon. It looked better than it tasted.

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
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