Peter Rojas

Senior Director of Product Management

2023 - 2024

Leading strategic projects as part of the product leadership team for Messenger and Instagram Direct at Meta. I worked on finding solutions to some of our biggest product challenges, particularly those that require cross-org and cross-company coordination.

Interim Pillar Lead, Messenger & Instagram Direct

2023 - 2023

Headed up Messenger's Personal Communication pillar

Head of Product, NPE

2021 - 2023

I headed up incubations and early stage explorations for NPE, Meta's experimental products group.

Founding Partner

2015 - 2021

Founding partner at Betaworks Ventures, a pre-seed and seed stage fund investing. Notable investments include Rec Room, Hugging Face, 8th Wall (acquired by Niantic), Resemble.ai, Bunch, Squad (acquired by Twitter), and Facemoji (acquired by Google).

VP of Strategy

2013 - 2015

I also was the co-founder and director of Alpha, AOL's experimental product group

CEO & Co-Founder

2008 - 2013

CEO & Co-founder of gdgt, a venture-backed social commerce startup focused on consumer electronics. Investors included Spark Capital, True Ventures, betaworks, SV Angel, & Lerer Ventures. Acquired by AOL in February 2013.

CEO & Founder

2007 - 2009

I created and led RCRD LBL an ad-supported online music platform that offered free, curated legal MP3s for download from thousands of emerging and established artists.

Founder

2004 - 2008

The first video game blog.

Founder & Editor-in-chief

2004 - 2008

Everything.

Founder & Editor-in-Chief

2002 - 2004

Associate Editor

1999 - 2001