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Merrill Lutsky

Co-founder/CEO at Graphite

New York, New York

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $200,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $300,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $250,000.00

Education

Work Experience

  • Co-founder/CEO

    2020

Product

2019 - 2020

  • Product

    2019 - 2020

    Working with a few exceptional early-stage companies in NYC to create & refine their product strategy & process

2017 - 2019

  • Software Engineer

    2018 - 2019

    Switched to software engineering to explore a personal passion, helped to build out SelfMade's integration with Facebook's ads API and a new product to help small eCommerce stores easily run giveaways on Instagram. Worked with Meteor, Mongo, React, various AWS services...

  • Product Manager

    2017 - 2018

    Led Product at SelfMade through initial iterations of a deep learning-enhanced photo editing app for influencers and a pivot to creating Instagram content for small eCommerce brands at scale. For the 6 months prior to transitioning to engineering, I led a cross-functional effort to launch SelfMade's ads product, which integrated our content creation pipeline with Facebook's Ads API to enable our customers to easily create, launch, and manage paid ad campaigns.

2015 - 2017

  • Product Manager

    2015 - 2017

    As a PM at Oscar, I worked on doctor appointment scheduling & Electronic Health Records system integrations, our doctor search engine, telemedicine interfaces, new user on-boarding flow, insurance ID card design & manufacturing, and provider-facing software platform. For my last 8 months, I led a cross-functional effort to enable Oscar plan members to instantly book doctor appointments from our web & mobile apps. This required building a platform to support integrations with multiple Electronic Health Records systems, negotiating integration deals with each EHR, launching & optimizing the member-facing booking flow, recruiting & on-boarding doctors to the program, and building tooling to minimize the operational work needed to scale instant scheduling.

2013 - 2015

  • Product Consultant

    2013 - 2015

    Product Consultant on Square's Customer Engagement and Business Operations team, working on Square's digital receipts program.

2012 - 2013

  • CEO

    2012 - 2013

    Co-founded a Y Combinator-backed startup building iPad-based customer feedback solutions for retailers, restaurants, and hospitality. I ran Posmetrics’s day to day operations, managed a team of 5 developers and salespeople, and met with investors, partners, and major clients. Started as a class project, Posmetrics won Harvard’s i3 Innovation Challenge and the Kairos Society K50 award, went through Y Combinator’s Winter 2013 startup incubator class, raised $510k in seed funding, and was acquired in the summer of 2013.

2012 - 2012

  • Software Development Intern

    2012 - 2012

    Built a back-end script in PHP to collect a user’s FourSquare check-ins and convert them into “feats”, and a front-end interface for the users to watch their points be tallied and simultaneously see an animated map move to the location of each check-in.