Shane Mac
Co-founder & CEO at Ephemera, developing XMTP. Co-Founder at Squared Away.
Nashville, Tennessee
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2021
Co-founder & CEO
2021
Ephemera helps build private and decentralized messaging. We help grow the XMTP ecosystem. The mission of XMTP is to build an open and secure messaging protocol that lasts forever. https://EphemeraHQ.com
2016
Chairman & Co-Founder
2016
A platform that connects military spouses to be your trusted assistants. We help CEOs, VCs, executives, and startup teams get their time back.
2016
Chairman
2016
Manuscripts is a publishing company for the modern author.
2008
Founder
2008
A podcast with a simple idea. Let's ask questions most people don't.
2019 - 2021
Senior Vice President
2019 - 2021
Joined Conversocial after the acquisition of Assist where I was the CEO & Co-Founder for 7 years. We were acquired for $50m cash by Verint $VRNT.
2014 - 2019
CEO and Co-Founder
2014 - 2019
Built the first bots & AI to power messaging and voice platforms. Powering T-Mobile, Sephora, Fandango, Lonely Planet, Hyatt, 1-800-FLOWERS, and more. We work with Facebook Messenger, Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Whatsapp, Twitter Business Messaging, and Apple Business Chat. Assist merged with Conversocial in March, 2019 and was then acquired by $VRNT Verint for $50m cash. http://conversocial.com/assist
2011 - 2014
Product
2011 - 2014
Discover and hire the right service expert.
2011 - 2011
Director of Product and Marketing
2011 - 2011
I worked post Gist acquisition.
2009 - 2011
Product and Marketing
2009 - 2011
Sold to BlackBerry for ~$45m with a team less than 15 people. We created the smart address book that today is called a "Social CRM" and grew it to over 100m people in 2 years.
2008 - 2009
Local Digital Ad Products
2008 - 2009
Lead a local ad product at Cobalt Group which resulted in 100M+ revenue and helped Cobalt sell to ADP for 400+ million.