Denver, Colorado
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Total Funding: $190M
2023
2023
ClassDojo is a global community of 50M+ teachers and families who come together to share kids’ most important learning moments in school and at home—through photos, videos, messages & more. I lead our cross-functional design and creative teams including product design, copywriting, brand, marketing, video, and illustration. We’re hiring across the board — come join the team: https://www.classdojo.com/jobs/
2018
2018
In 2018, I founded Ligature: The Design VC with Dan Becker. We're an early and growth stage venture fund. Our investments include Public.com, AtoB, Safara, ZIINA, and Kick. We invest and then help founders build design into the DNA of their company from Day One.
2015
2015
Since 2015, I've been an advisor to Designer Fund across all three of their venture funds. I love working with founders in Designer Fund's portfolio and mentoring design leaders in their network.
2020
In 2020, I was accepted into the Edmund Hillary Fellowship (EHF) as an investor as part of their global community of 500+ entrepreneurs and investors. It's been an incredible opportunity to invest in and get to know New Zealand's startup community.
2019 - 2022
2019 - 2022
In early 2019, I joined Tiny to lead the turnaround of Flow—a productivity platform used by more than 300,000 people in 140 countries including team at Shopify, Apple, TED, NOLS, Yale, Merck, and Bang & Olufsen. When I arrived, Flow had significant technical and design debt, no clear product direction, and was losing around 5% of its customers every single month. Within 18 months, I helped the company return to completely organic month-over-month growth with a brand new version of the product. • Refocused the company to win on user experience, world-class design, and powerfully simple features. • Shipped a complete reinvention of Flow after nearly 18 months of work. Within 48 hours of launch, we saw over 80% of customers switch to use the new version daily with usage growing to 92% within the first 30 days. • Successfully moved from a discount pricing model to a premium one raising prices nearly 2x—supported by a world-class product. • Rebranded the company, product, plans, and created an entirely new product design system.
2019 - 2022
2019 - 2022
Stratos is an institution credit and venture fund with over $250M in assets under management.
2019 - 2020
2019 - 2020
2019 - 2020
2019 - 2020
2018 - 2020
2018 - 2020
2016 - 2020
2017 - 2020
2016 - 2017
I partnered with ex-Sequoia partner turned founder Warren Hogarth to define the look, feel, and feature set for Empower before he even incorporated the company. During the 15+ month lead up Empower's launch in the iOS App Store, I led every aspect of the design of the application. After launch, I remained on as an advisor and helped Warren bring on a team of designers to take over—as I made the decision with my wife to move to Colorado and Warren wanted to build an in-office team in San Francisco. I remained on as an advisor for 2+ years helping the team. To date, Empower has raised $174M from Sequoia, Initialized Capital, Icon Ventures, Quiet Capital, and Blisce.