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Min Investment:
$250,000.00Max Investment:
$2,000,000.00Target Investment:
$1,125,000.00
Education
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Investments
Work Experience
2019
Founder, General Partner
2019
Breakpoint Capital is a seed stage investment platform, partnering with entrepreneurs at the earliest stages of venture formation.
2019 - 2021
Chief Executive Officer
2019 - 2021
Facet is a business intelligence platform for real-time programmatic advertising. Facet was spun out of Snap in 2019 and acquired by Snap in 2021. Facet was financed by Breakpoint Capital.
2016 - 2018
Founder, CEO and Chairman
2016 - 2018
Platform to enable header bidding for in-app mobile advertising. Acquired by AppLovin (APP) in 2018.
2015 - 2016
Entrepreneur In Residence
2015 - 2016
Returned to Accel via their EIR program and launched Spiral, a mobile-first video consumption app in 2015. Evaluated investments and assisted Accel portfolio companies with strategy, hiring and M+A.
2013 - 2015
VP Exchange
2013 - 2015
Completed the commercial integration of MoPub into Twitter's advertising business post acquisition.
2010 - 2013
Founder and CEO
2010 - 2013
MoPub is the largest ad server and RTB exchange for mobile advertising. I founded MoPub to offer a world-class monetization platform for mobile apps. As CEO, I grew the company to 120 employees across three offices, and $100mm annual revenue in 2013. MoPub was financed by Accel and Harrison Metal. MoPub was acquired by Twitter in October 2013 for $700mm (Post IPO value).
2009 - 2010
Sr. Product Manager
2009 - 2010
Led ads products with a focus on performance advertisers. Designed and shipped cross-platform conversion tracking initiatives as well as behavioral and geo-locational targeting features.
2006 - 2009
Product Manager
2006 - 2009
Managed Maps/Local syndication products: doubled license fee revenue in 2008, launched local ads syndication to Maps API publisher sites. Moved to the consumer properties team and managed monetization across products including Finance and News. As a 20% project, launched Google Flu Trends through google.org. Launched and ran Google Real Time Search, which indexed Twitter and other updates and provides them as part of search results.