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Ash Rust

Founder turned Investor. Helping Formation Stage Startups in πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

San Francisco, California

Skills

Python
Staying Low, Moving Fast
Data Extraction
Text Mining
Algorithms
User Experience
Analysis
MySQL
Data Mining
Entrepreneurship
Machine Learning
Linux
JavaScript
HTML
Hadoop
Project Management
SQL

Education

Work Experience

  • Managing Partner

    2017

    Pre-Seed B2B Venture Fund Focused on Founder Coaching.

  • Mentor

    2014 - 2023

2017 - 2021

  • Mentor

    2017 - 2021

2017 - 2021

  • Mentor

    2017 - 2021

2016 - 2019

  • Advisor

    2016 - 2019

2016 - 2017

  • EIR

    2016 - 2017

2011 - 2016

  • Cofounder & CEO

    2011 - 2016

    Acquired by Cameo. YC W12. Business Messaging Solutions. Venture backed business messaging startup. The business grew to multi-million dollar revenue with customers such as: Lyft, Wag, Berkshire Hathaway, Booz Allen Hamilton, Yale and Teach for America; before being acquired by Cameo Global in 2015.

  • Product, Director of Ranking

    2010 - 2011

    Led development of Scoring, Influence Graph and Topics. Scaled scoring and graph algorithms from a few million scores to hundreds of millions.

OneRiot (Acquired by Walmart)

2009 - 2010

  • Lead Relevance Engineer

    2009 - 2010

    Led relevance team. Projects: crowdsourced data collection, ML based relevance training & A/B testing.

2008 - 2009

  • Engineer

    2008 - 2009

    Linguistic engineering: efficient solutions for language problems, query meaning and data extraction from free text.