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Ben McCann

Entrepreneur. Investor.

Mountain View, California

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $1,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $500,000.00

Skills

Start-ups
Big Data
Product Development
User Experience
Machine Learning
Web Analytics
Entrepreneurship
Distributed Systems
Product Management
Business Strategy
Scalability
Customer Acquisition
Web Marketing
Venture Capital
SaaS
Leadership
Executive Management

Work Experience

  • Investor and Advisor

    2014

    Seed-stage investor in multiple unicorns Recent companies include: Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company, Polymath Robotics, Living Carbon, Momentus Space, Memora Health, Pegasus Solar, Curebase, Ubits, Sable, VenoStent, Varos, Zingbus, Perceptive

2016 - 2019

  • Head of Hire Matching

    2016 - 2019

    Led the engineering teams building LinkedIn's AI-powered matching used by recruiters and hiring managers

2011 - 2016

  • Co-founder, CTO

    2011 - 2016

    Connecting people and jobs is fundamental to our economy and lives. Connectifier's industry-leading machine learning-based searching and matching technology are now available in LinkedIn Recruiter and Microsoft Bing.

2008 - 2011

  • Software Engineer

    2008 - 2011

    Launched Realtime Google Analytics, which is one of the world's largest scale production systems giving insights to webmasters in realtime for sites comprising about half the world's internet traffic. Led Accounts+ effort enabling corporate accounts to be used with Google Analytics. Received prestigious Operating Committee Honorable Mention Award from senior executives and four peer bonuses. Led company-wide effort to correct and minimize project dependencies with over 500 engineers participating globally. Reduced build times and binary sizes by as much as 90%. Received Ads Citizenship Award for work on improving Analytics scalability, uptime, and data integrity. Interviewed over 50 candidates for hire. 20% time: Created the Google Spreadsheets formula bar and formula highlighting.