KW

Kevin Weil

CPO at OpenAI, board member at The Nature Conservancy, Planet Federal, BPM. Prev: President at Planet, co-creator Libra, Head of Product at Instagram and Twitter.

Portola Valley, California

Investor
Product Operator
Angel
Advisor

Invests in

Stages:

Seed
Pre-seed

Locations:

California

  • Min Investment:

    $10,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $100,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $50,000.00

Skills

Analytics
Product Management
Programming
Hadoop
Python
Distributed Systems
Java
C++
Apache
Big Data
Mobile Applications
Perl
Mobile Devices
Software Engineering
Cloud Computing
Scalability
SaaS
Linux
Ruby
MySQL

Education

Investments

SLAY

Pre Seed

Total Funding: $8M

OSlash

Seed

Total Funding: $8M

Stoke Space

Series A

Total Funding: $170M

Sequin

Seed

Total Funding: $6M

Constructor

Series A

Total Funding: $86M

Titan

Series B

Total Funding: $110M

Synctera

Seed

Total Funding: $64M

Recess

Seed

Total Funding: $11M

Air

Series A

Total Funding: $27M

Swoop

Seed

Total Funding: $3M

Work Experience

OpenAI

2024

  • Chief Product Officer

    2024

Council on Foreign Relations

2019

  • Member

    2024

  • Term Member

    2019 - 2024

Planet

2021

  • Board Member, Planet Federal

    2024

  • President, Product & Business

    2021 - 2024

The Nature Conservancy

2019

  • Board Member

    2019

Black Product Managers Network

2020

  • Board Member

    2020

Strava

2016 - 2024

  • Board Member

    2016 - 2024

Facebook

2018 - 2021

  • VP of Product, Novi; co-creator Diem (fka Libra)

    2018 - 2021

Instagram

2016 - 2018

  • VP of Product

    2016 - 2018

Twitter

2009 - 2016

  • SVP Product

    2009 - 2016

    Responsible for product, product marketing, and design at Twitter, including Vine and Periscope. Twitter is an incredible product that reaches every corner of the Earth and touches hundreds of millions of lives every day. Previously: VP of Product, Revenue: July 2013 - Oct 2014 Director of Product, Revenue: July 2012 - July 2013 Product Lead, Revenue: December 2010 - July 2012 Engineering Lead, Analytics: May 2009 - December 2010

Cooliris

2007 - 2009

  • Engineering Lead, Analytics

    2007 - 2009

    Bridging the gap between the web and the desktop with intuitive and powerful hardware-accelerated interfaces. Wrote client-side C++ for our multithreaded, hardware accelerated browser plugin, wrote backend code in Java and Python. Founded and led the analytics team last 12 months, created company-wide analytics platform on top of Hadoop, Apache Pig, and Google Protocol Buffers.