Founder, Investor & Founder
Investing and incubating early-stage founders and late-stage disruptors. Relevant #FinTech investments include: Chime, PayTM, Stripe, Transferwise, Plaid, Coinbase
Marty Ringlein
Corporate Strategy/Innovation via Venture Studio. Adventure Fund GP; founder w/ 5x exits: Twitter, $EB, Brex, Invision, WPP. Prev. Innovation at The Whitehouse.
Corporate Strategy/Innovation via Venture Studio. Adventure Fund GP; founder w/ 5x exits: Twitter, $EB, Brex, Invision, WPP. Prev. Innovation at The Whitehouse.
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Experience
Interim Senior Director of Product
Joined Brex as a part of an M&A transaction from a portfolio company (Gather) - focusing primarily on new monetization initiatives launching SaaS based business banking... more products on top of the Brex core platform: Expense Management, Accounts Payable, and Accounts Receivable.
Exit
Global Head of R&D
Acquired, pre-IPO, to help build Eventbrite's Innovation division. Responsible for helping set and ultimately ensuring that the organization meets its objectives to research... more emerging technologies and collaborate in the development of new or existing product innovation.
Exit
nvite
Founder, Founder & CEO
nvite was successfully acquired by Eventbrite in November 2016. We built the world’s most sophisticated, #social and seamless event ticketing, RSVP and guest management platform.... more Focused on all aspects of developing and growing the business from product validation, management, and design to customer acquisition as well as fundraising.
Exit
Macaw
Board Member
The White House
Presidential Innovation Fellow
Working directly with the Office of Science and Technology Policy within the Obama Administration, I was a part of a competitive fellowship program that pairs top innovators... more from the private sector, non-profits, and academia with top innovators in government to collaborate on solutions that aim to deliver significant results.
Exit
Twitter's First Design Manager
Acquired, pre-IPO, to be Twitter’s first Design Manager. Tasked with designing the design team. During my tenure, I got to experience the brand redesigned, profiles re-imagined,... more events discovered, in-Tweet media, filtered photos, Twitter Music and Vine.
Exit
nclud
Founder, Co-Founder & CEO
nclud was successfully acquired by Twitter in May of 2012. nclud was an industry-leading research and design agency, working with some of the most prominent and innovative... more brands in the world on high-growth technology product development. Lead the significant growth of revenue, client-base and reputation of the agnecy; focused on all aspects of the company's business development efforts and acted as a senior consultant for brand-experience management and innovation.
Motley Fool
Art Director
General Partner
Helping lead corporate strategy and innovation by working on the front-lines of foresight building and investing in the future of #web3, #FinTech, #InsurTech, and Health &... more Wellness as a collaborative partner between start-ups and the Fortune 500.
Gather
Investor & Interim Chief Product Officer
Helping support the product, operations, and growth of a seed-stage collaborative personal financial management startup focused on disrupting traditional joint bank accounts... more for couples. Gather was acquired by Brex in 2020.
Founder
Employee
Board Member
Projects
The Ultimate Employee Advocacy and Amplification Platform
It’s like a Frequent Flyer program but for Employee Engagement: We've built the next generation Employee Advocacy platform that effectively recruits more… · More candidates, strengthens company cultures, and develops stronger affinities between your brand and the communities + consumers you serve.
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Achievements
The best experience I've ever had is being a part of a great team. Over the past two decades I’ve had the unique opportunity to help build, grow, and invest in product teams and companies; working with some of the world's best talent, biggest brands, and most amazing customers.
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Q&A
What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?
The Power of Little Ideas
If money were not an issue, what would you be doing right now?
Building the world's first Guacamole Farm.
What words of advice would you give your younger self?
Go forward as though you're right, prepare as though you're wrong.
What's the most creative thing you've ever done?