JC

Jeff Chang

Head of Growth Engineering at Whatnot

United States

Investor
Angel

Invests in

Stages:

Seed

  • Min Investment:

    $5,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $50,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $25,000.00

Education

Investments

Skio

Seed

Total Funding: $12M

Offsight

Seed

Total Funding: $6M

PopSQL

Seed Round

Total Funding: $20M

Stadium Live Studios

Seed

Total Funding: $13M

Transform

Seed

Total Funding: $25M

Linear

Seed

Total Funding: $52M

Work Experience

Whatnot

2021

  • Director of Engineering, Head of Growth

    2021

    Started the growth team at Whatnot, where we work on referrals, notifications, buyer and seller acquisition, performance marketing, and more to help us become the fastest growing marketplace in the US. We're hiring! "Whatnot is for the second straight year the fastest-growing Marketplace 100 company." - A16Z Marketplace 100

Various

2016

  • Growth Advisor

    2016

    Advised several fast growing companies on building scalable growth channels and impactful growth engineering teams. Companies I have worked with include Canva, Lyft, Upwork, and more

Angel

2018

  • Angel Investor

    2018

    Supporting amazing founders Seed stage investor: Linear, Supermove, Vori, Atlys, Skio, Codify, Preemo, 20+

Canva

2020 - 2022

  • Growth Advisor

    2020 - 2022

Pastel Labs

2020 - 2021

  • Founder, CEO

    2020 - 2021

    Built several B2B and consumer products. Acquired by Whatnot

Pinterest

2014 - 2020

  • Staff Software Engineer

    2014 - 2020

    Early Pinterest Growth Engineering. Helped start and and scale various growth teams as a technical lead from 0-1 to help Pinterest grow to 400MM+ MAU and beyond: user acquisition, authentication, SEO, paid growth, activation, engagement, invites, and more.