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Robyn Reiss

Angel Investor, Operator, Community Organizer

Palo Alto, California

Invests in

Stages:

  • Min Investment:

    $10,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $50,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $50,000.00

Work Experience

  • Stanford University - Ethics of Technology

    2021

    Led an effort with three professors (Mehran Sahami, Rob Reich, and Jeremy Weinstein) to determine what the work of Computer Science 182 (Ethics, Public Policy, and Technological Change) and a new book, System Error, could be converted to in terms of initiatives. Formulated a new set of university fellowships to drive impact in the tech sector, as well as tightly coordinated work with VCs and a concept of a free university for learning the ethics of technology.

  • Investor

    2018

    Facebook women alumnae angel investing in a portfolio of >50% women and underrepresented founders.

  • Technology Consultant

    2021 - 2021

    Brought in to help infuse technology into Santa Clara County's vaccine rollout.

2020 - 2020

  • Co Lead

    2020 - 2020

    Built and co-led 40 person tech support team for the volunteers powering the National Democratic Voter Protection Hotline (iwillvote.com). Worked 15 hour days, 7 days a week for 6 weeks to solve vote-blocking issues for 300,000 voters.

  • Operations for Engineering

    2017 - 2018

    Drove initiatives for the engineering team at CZI.

2013 - 2016

  • Product Development

    2013 - 2016

    (1) Product Manager for GreatNonprofits, (2) iOS engineer for ReSearch, and (3) explored startups

2008 - 2014

  • Head of Internal Communications and Head of Platform Policy and Operations

    2008 - 2014

    Was the sole internal communications person leading Facebook through the IPO in 2012. For three years, every Friday moderated Mark's Q&A with employees and made sure he got hard questions asked. Before that, managed platform policy and operations (enforcement and support operations for small to medium developers).

2006 - 2011

  • Lecturer, Computer Science Department

    2006 - 2011

    I was the lecturer for Computer Science 154, Automata and Complexity Theory for five summer quarters while working full-time at Google and Facebook.

2006 - 2008

  • Senior Manager, Advertising & Technical Operations

    2006 - 2008

    I built and managed technical teams servicing Google's mid-to-long tail of advertisers. These included the AdWords escalation technical support team, and the Google Analytics support team.

  • Chief Operations Officer

    2003 - 2006

    Second hire and founding COO of the successful start-up school Summit Preparatory High School, now expanded to the charter network Summit Public Schools. Summit uses Personalized Learning to empower all kids to learn in their own style and at their own pace. We started with the same demographic as the local Sequoia district (most kids first generation-college), and instead of their 40% college-readiness rate, prepared 96% of kids for four-year college.