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    Max Engel

    Max Engel

    Founder, advisor, and investor focused on micropolitan and rural problems.

    Product leader and builder.

    Co-founder and CPO at Unplay.

    Advisor Manchester Yale University '06
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    Experience
    Awecelot
    Awecelot
    Founder, Principal 2014 - Present (almost 12 years)
    Boutique product development firm specializing in helping startups formulate, nurture, and scale their product as well as helping companies inject innovation into existing... more enterprises.
    Vennly
    Vennly
    Founder, Technical Advisor 2018 - Present (about 8 years)
    Honest Buildings
    Honest Buildings
    VP of Product 2014 (8 months)
    SpinMedia
    SpinMedia
    VP of Product 2012 - 2014 (over 1 year)
    BBC
    BBC
    Sr. Product Manager 2010 - 2012 (over 1 year)
    Gravity
    Exit
    Gravity
    Lead Product Manager 2009 - 2010 (over 1 year)
    Founder
    Tigrillo, Awecelot, Unplay, Vennly
    Employee
    Yahoo, MySpace, Gravity, Honest Buildings, Dollaride, BBC, SpinMedia
    Investor
     
    Incubator
     
    Advisor
    Clark, Agora for Good, Bidio, Vimsical, Populace, ROUND2, UMA Health, Hyperflow
    Attorney
     
    Board Member
     
    Mentor
     
    Member
     
    Acquired
     
     
    Education
     
    Projects
    OnFrontiers
    Enterprise knowledge network
    CLEAR
    Identity technology provider
    Priori
    Legal talent platform for corporate counsel
    DojoMojo
    A growth acceleration platform
    Cadence13
    Leader in premium podcasting
    Shake
    Shake allows users to create, sign and send legal agreements
     
    About
    Achievements

    At Honest Buildings, I revamped the entire UX and UI, which helped us triple the amount of deal flow in 9 months. I then repositioned the product from a matchmaking marketplace into a comprehensive workflow tool.

    At SpinMedia, I created a new CMS to power our portfolio and headed a cross-functional labs team that incubated new properties. I also crafted the company’s native ad platform and ad product innovation efforts.

    At the BBC, I oversaw the launch of our Doctor Who and Top Gear online social games.

    At MySpace, I launched MySpaceID, the first social identity platform built on open standards. I took it from launch to over 2 million users and 2,500 different implementations including partners like Vodafone, Google, Intel, the NBA, and more.

    At Yahoo!, I oversaw our implementation of the OpenSocial spec into the Yahoo! social backend. I worked on the Yahoo! application platform’s API and architecture, and integrated it with Mail, Front Page, My Yahoo!, Search, and others.

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
    Skills
    Open Social API Open Standards Platforms Social Games Internet TV Semantic Web Mobile Gaming Branded Entertainment Facebook Platform Wireframing Product Development Product Management Information Architecture Competitive Analysis Content Management OAuth Planning Product Design Project Management Web Technologies
    Locations
    Remote
     
    Q&A
    What's your favorite non-business book?

    Slaughterhouse-Five

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

    Semaphore

    What's your super power?

    Coming up with pithy answers to asinine questions.

    What words of wisdom do you live by?

    Own your team's failures and give credit for your successes.

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