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Pete Koomen

Group Partner, Y Combinator

San Francisco, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $5,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $50,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $25,000.00

Work Experience

  • Group Partner

    2023

  • Visiting Group Partner

    2022 - 2023

2010 - 2021

  • Co-founder

    2010 - 2021

    Optimizely helps businesses optimize the digital experiences they provide to their customers so they can out-experiment and outperform their competitors.

2009 - 2014

  • Co-founder

    2009 - 2014

    Our goal at CarrotSticks (http://carrotsticks.com) is to provide parents and educators with tools to make learning a more exciting and interactive experience for children. On a marketing budget of $0, we've grown CarrotSticks to more than 50,000 active students in more than 1000 school districts.

2006 - 2009

  • Product Manager

    2006 - 2009

    Product Manager, Google App Engine (http://code.google.com/appengine) Helped launch and grow the App Engine platform to more than 150,000 developers in its first year, with direct involvement in "Campfire One" launch event, front end and API design, messaging, pricing, terms and policies, press interviews, and industry events. Also successfully led the Google "OKR" team, responsible for driving quarterly company goal-setting process with Google founders and executives, for 2 years. Prior to working on App Engine, was an Associate Product Manager on the Adsense team, launching 13 major publisher-facing features in 1 year.