Chris Kurdziel

Founder

2022

Contributor

2022

Game7 is a sub-DAO of BITDAO - it consists of a $500M treasury managed and deployed by the community to accelerate progress in crypto and gaming.

Mentor

2015

Partner

2022 - 2023

Mirana is a cross-stage crypto VC that invests in entrepreneurs, projects, and other venture funds with check sizes ranging from $250k to $50M. I led the fund's application layer investments in gaming and web3.

Venture Partner

2017 - 2022

Joyance Partners is a $20M+ venture capital partnership that invests in companies with the capacity to deliver, or contribute to the delivery of, delightful moments. I advise on new consumer, crypto/web3, and immersive computing/media investments for the fund. Relevant companies: The Block, Medal.tv, Supermedium and others

Principal, Ventures

2019 - 2020

Led Samsung's early stage investment focus on gaming, crypto, and immersive technology via a $150M early stage venture capital vehicle. I was fortunate to invest in and work with companies like Medal.tv, Eternal, Forte, PlayVS, Dapper Labs, Spatial and more during my time at Samsung.

Director of Product, OTT

2016 - 2019

Vimeo OTT (formerly VHX) makes it easy for creators to offer their own video subscription service directly to audiences on any platform around the globe. We provide video infrastructure, backend APIs all the way to consumer app experiences across mobile and TV. After VHX's acquisition, I led the OTT product team from the addition of our first enterprise customers and through a period of hyper-growth (10x revenue and user growth) during which Vimeo OTT was the fastest growing business inside Vimeo.

Director of Product

2016 - 2017

Joined the team as the first PM taking the reins from the founders at the time the company launched its first subscription offerings.

Group Product Manager

2014 - 2015

Joined Samsung via acquisition to build next-gen TV experiences for Samsung's Smart TV platform, including custom open-source Android based hardware, connected home integrations and cloud services. I helped grow the team from 25 to over 90 (including the addition of 5 PMs) and led product efforts for Samsung's TV SDK with leading OTT and MVPD partners.

Product Lead

2011 - 2014

At Shelby, we built the social video graph and along with it, consumer video discovery apps to help users discover the best video from all over the web on their TV/mobile devices. We tracked hundreds of millions of pieces of social data across millions of different videos and used these to deliver serendipitous and delightful video recommendations to our users. I led the product team, growth/marketing efforts and did a little bit of everything else.