Peter Rojas
Founder of Gizmodo and Engadget, founding partner at Betaworks Ventures, former Head of Product for New Product Experimentation at Meta
San Francisco, California
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2021 - 2024
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.
2015 - 2021
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).
2013 - 2015
VP of Strategy
2013 - 2015
I also was the co-founder and director of Alpha, AOL's experimental product group
2008 - 2013
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.
2007 - 2009
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.
2004 - 2008
Founder
2004 - 2008
The first video game blog.
2004 - 2008
Founder & Editor-in-chief
2004 - 2008
Everything.
2002 - 2004
Founder & Editor-in-Chief
2002 - 2004
1999 - 2001
Associate Editor
1999 - 2001