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Andrew Song

Founder and CEO at Whisper

San Francisco, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $5,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $25,000.00

Skills

XML
Machine Learning
Programming
Usability
Product Development
AJAX
Bash
Apache
OOP
.NET
iOS
Project Management
Shell Scripting
Databases
Embedded Systems
Program Management
Data Analysis
Telecommunications
Business Analysis
Spring

Work Experience

2017

  • CEO and Co-founder

    2017

    Established in 2017, Whisper is a team of artificial intelligence, hearing care, hardware, and software experts coming together to solve the challenge of providing better hearing. We set out to make the Whisper Hearing System so our parents, grandparents, friends and teammates can have a tomorrow that sounds even better than today.

  • Scout

    2018

    Helping entrepreneurs in whatever way I can, including early round investments (Angel, Seed, and Series A) via Sequoia's Scout fund.

2012 - 2017

  • Head of Product - Messenger Core

    2012 - 2017

    Led the product team responsible for the consumer product experiences on Facebook Messenger, including all consumer touch-points and interfaces (navigation, messaging, media, group messaging, etc.) and core product performance (cold/warm start, reliability, etc.). Facebook Messenger grew from ~600M -> 1.2B monthly active users during my time on the team. I'm also passionate about early career development and was involved with the Facebook Rotational PM (RPM) program. I managed several "vintages" of RPMs and later helped develop new RPM managers.

2011 - 2011

  • Software Engineer

    2011 - 2011

    Google Travel • Developed new UIs for hotel reservation results in Google Web Search, leading to an increase of 33% of hotel search bookings revenue • Designed and developed new Hotel Price Ads (HPA) bidding interface, allowing advertisers to set per-account, per-chain, and per-location reserve prices on their bids

2011 - 2011

  • Software Engineer

    2011 - 2011

    Site Integrity: designing, developing, and launching Login Approvals (Facebook Two Factor Authentication) [1] [1]: https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150172618258920

2009 - 2010

  • Software Developer

    2009 - 2010

    Software development at Fog Creek software working on Kiln, a source control system for organizations based on Mercurial. Gave a tech talk about search Parsing and the Irony C# .NET framework. [1] [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX4m08yJ27g

2009 - 2009

  • Embedded Software Developer

    2009 - 2009

    Embedded software developer co-op on the 3G Layer 3 - NAS radio team.

2008 - 2008

  • Systems Integration and Test Specialist

    2008 - 2008

    Feature-level testing for the Blackberry 8350i, an iDEN phone based off of the Blackberry Curve line of products.