JL

Jimmy Li

Data + Product + Growth + Investing

San Francisco Bay Area

Work Experience

2021

  • Consultant

    2021

    Twingate's mission is to make "work from everywhere" safe for companies and seamless for their employees. Twingate is backed by leading investors including WndrCo, 8VC, Green Bay Ventures, Accel, SignalFire, and Bond. I work on driving product-led growth and building out data analytics to empower end-to-end visibility of the user journey.

2016 - 2021

  • VP

    2016 - 2021

    Goodwater is the largest consumer-tech focused venture capital firm in the world, managing over $4B of assets and serving over 200 portfolio companies in 28 countries around the world. Our global family of companies provide innovative technology products that address the daily needs of consumers — housing, health care, food, financial services, transportation, education, and entertainment.

2014 - 2016

  • Business Operations / Corporate Development

    2014 - 2016

    Sourced and diligenced strategic acquisition opportunities Evaluated and recommended strategies to grow the business in new markets

  • PhD student

    2009 - 2014

    Affiliated with the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) and the MIT Sloan Marketing group. Applied machine learning to estimate cross-price elasticities and optimize SKU pricing. Teaching assistant for: - 6.041/6.431/6.041x: Probabilistic Systems Analysis (undergraduate, graduate, and online MITx/edX versions) - 6.231: Dynamic Programming & Stochastic Control (graduate level) - 15.730: Data, Models, and Decisions (Executive MBA '13) - 15.809: Marketing Management (Sloan Fellows MBA '13 and '14)

2011 - 2011

  • Algorithmic Trading Intern

    2011 - 2011

    Conceived, coded, and backtested algorithmic trading strategies for S&P and Nasdaq futures using supervised learning

2008 - 2009

  • Software Engineer

    2008 - 2009

    Software engineer on Google Ad Planner: providing data insights on website traffic, audience demographics, and commonly searched keywords

  • China Educational Technology Initiative teacher

    2008 - 2008

    Developed and taught curricula on Computer Science and American culture to 150 high school and university students in China and Taiwan

2006 - 2006

  • Software Engineering Intern

    2006 - 2006

    Engineering intern on Google Checkout