Thorsten Jaeckel

Product, Coinbase One

2020

Product Lead for Coinbase One, the #1 crypto subscription. Products I've shipped or worked on during my time at Coinbase - USDbC (USDC on Base): Grown from 0 to $125M TVL in < 1 month - Solana & Polkadot Staking: Earn up to 10% APY by staking SOL & DOT - Staking Infrastructure: Build a more resilient system for users to stake their assets and earn a yield - Earn Center: See all your yield earnings in a single place and discover new ways to earn - DeFi Yield: Earn yield on Dai & USDT powered by Compound - USDC & Dai Rewards: Earn rewards for holding USDC & Dai on Coinbase - BTC backed loans & line of credit: Borrow up to $1M USD against BTC collateral

Executive in Residence (EIR) - Product Management Lecturer

2022

Teaching "Introduction to Product Management" in Carnegie Mellon's Executive Education program as well as the Full-Time and Part-Time MBA programs (part of "Product Management for and by PMs" lecture series) . I'm also mentoring and advising MBA students in the Technology Strategy and Product Management (TSPM) Track.

Limited Partner & Advisor

2022

Angel Investor

2020

Angel Investor in early stage companies, primarily in the FinTech/web3 space. Select investments: here.co | Invest in vacation rentals like stocks learn.xyz | Learn about any topic you want, powered by AI FANtium | Invest in athletes you believe in via NFTs Amuzed | NFT music manager game Stacked | Smart crypto investing Gilded | Infrastructure to run your business on the Blockchain BitPay | Pay with crypto dClimate | The first decentralized network for climate data In addition to direct angel investments, I'm also a LP with these funds: Motive Ventures Early Stage (LP & Advisor) | Seed stage FinTech/Web3 VC, 100M EUR AUM Beyond Capital (LP) | Seed stage FinTech/SaaS fund, 21.5M EUR AUM RaliCap Ventures (LP) | Emerging markets FinTech and climate tech fund

Product Lead, Consumer Lending

2019 - 2020

Led a team of 3 product managers and 20+ engineers and data scientists in San Francisco. We built Square Installments, which brings omni-channel point-of-sale financing to Square merchants. During my time at Square, we scaled the product from MVP to national scale and achieved the following milestones: - Onboard Celtic bank as the lender to expand to all US states - Re-design the application experience to improve conversion - Achieve positive unit economics by developing next gen fraud and risk models - Develop a vertical-based high touch onboarding strategy for high value merchants I also applied for a patent for our idea of integrating small $ installment lending directly into the Square point-of-sale.

Director of Product

2015 - 2019

Hired and led a team of 5 product managers in San Francisco, CA and Richmond, VA. My team was working on LendUp Loans, which included a safe alternative to Payday lending as well as credit building lower-cost Installment Loans. I joined the company before its Series B and helped grow loan originations from <$100M in 2015 to $1.5B+ by late 2018. Key accomplishments / projects during my time: - Scaled LendUp loan originations to $1.5B+ cumulative lent by late 2018 - Launched a new Installment loan product line for new customers - Expanded LendUp Payday loans into 8 new states, representing a 50% expansion in geographical footprint - Led infrastructure upgrades to move to a new loan management system, integrate with additional data providers and increase time to market for risk model updates - Introduced customization to the LendUp ladder, leading to significant increases in loan sizes for most customers I joined LendUp as a Senior Product Manager and was promoted to Group Product Manager in August 2016 and Director of Product in January 2018.

Senior Business Manager

2011 - 2015

In this role I reported to the GM of the Venture business and led a number of strategic projects and initiatives to improve the Venture customer experience. Highlights include: - Enhanced rewards redemption capabilities - Prototyping and testing metal-substrate cards (broad-scale launch happened in 2017, after I had left) - Launch and manage national scale promotion ("Double Miles Challenge") and enhanced early spend bonus offers In addition to these customer-facing changes, I was led several strategic initiatives to evolve and expand the Venture portfolio: - Renegotiation of the interchange contract with Visa - Evaluation of M&A acquisition targets by partnering with the Corporate Development team - Evaluate ways to grow the Travel Rewards footprint by launching adjacent products as well as new marketing strategies I joined Capital One as a Senior Business Analyst and was promoted twice: To Business Manager and then to Senior Business Manager. In my 3.5 years at Capital One, I managed a total for 3 interns and 2 FTE.

Summer Consultant, Insurance

2010 - 2010

Intern, Chief of Staff

2009 - 2009

Summer Associate, Advisory

2008 - 2008