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Joseph Perla

CEO of Hangout | 4-time founder | $10M+ raised | Ex-Facebook, Lyft, Turntable.fm, Princeton

San Francisco, California

CEO

Invests in

Stages:

Seed
Pre-seed

  • Min Investment:

    $0.00

  • Max Investment:

    $0.00

  • Target Investment:

    $0.00

Skills

invisibility
x-ray vision
mind reading
flying
clairvoyance
time travel

Education

Investments

Mindie

Seed

Total Funding: $1M

Work Experience

Hangout

2023

  • CEO

    2023

    http://Hangout.fm/ hang out online with music

Turntable Labs, Inc

2020

  • President

    2020

    Runs Hangout.fm and TurntableLabs.com

EndCOVID.org

2020 - 2020

  • SF Lead

    2020 - 2020

    Recruit volunteers with a medical background to help hospitals in SF manage the newest pandemic patients.

Lyft

2015 - 2019

  • Machine Learning: Level 5 Autonomous Vehicles

    2018 - 2019

    Autonomous self-driving vehicle safety, localization, SLAM, routing, ETAs, autonomous safety, Machine Learning & Deep Learning.

  • Senior Manager: Passenger Acquisition / Growth

    2015 - 2018

    Launched the Round Up & Donate brand strategy feature, as well as Lyft Gift Cards. Responsible for Passenger Acquisition. Helped build out the new Growth Org, including managing Driver Growth as well, and increased passenger growth rate 5X+. In charge of Passenger Acquisition during biggest growth period from 8 to 33% market share vs Uber (2 to 22 million MAU).

Plato

2017 - 2018

  • Plato Mentor - Engineering Leadership

    2017 - 2018

    Plato (www.platohq.com) is a network of experienced engineering leaders, assembled to help other engineering leaders find their perfect mentor for their management/leadership challenges

Terminal.com (CloudLabs, Inc)

2014 - 2015

  • Co-Founder

    2014 - 2015

    After investing early, I worked with the founder to source and close an additional $4.2MM in funding. We built a team of 10 engineers and launched a new, fast public cloud, which has reached over 100,000 Terminal initializations and continues to grow. We were acquired by Udacity.

Facebook

2012 - 2013

  • Tech Lead, News Feed for iPhone

    2012 - 2013

    I worked with the people manager to build and lead a team of 7 engineers to launch a successful redesign of the News Feed on iOS that significantly increased usage. I also helped with leadership of the autoplay videos team (which had engineers in both SF and London) and we launched videos within the News Feed on all mobile platforms.

Turntable (tt.fm) — TTFM Labs

2010 - 2011

  • Co-Founder / VP of Technology

    2010 - 2011

    The site streamed over a million songs per day at its peak.

Labmeeting, Inc

2007 - 2010

  • Co-Founder, CTO

    2007 - 2010

    I architected, built, and led a team of 2 engineers to build this social network and document management tool for scientists, funded by Peter Thiel. The site reached over 500,000 unique visitors a month at its peak.

Zandigo

2005 - 2007

  • Co-Founder

    2005 - 2007

    I architected, built, and led a team of 3 engineers to build the first version of this social network for college students. Became Zinch. Eventually acquired by Chegg.