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Ryan Tabone

Alchemist, Advisor, Investor, occasional Executive | Google, Alphabet, Lightspeed

New York, New York

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Work Experience

2022

  • Advisor

    2022

2024

  • Founder

    2024

    Board & Advisory through referral only.

2022

  • Advisor

    2022

2016

  • Founder & Investor

    2016

    Investor & advisor to startups in a variety of industries For a partial list of tech investments, see https://angel.co/ryant

2022 - 2024

  • Co-Founder & Advisor

    2022 - 2024

  • Co-Founder & CEO

    2022 - 2022

    Happiness comes from working with who you love. Saw a need to connect groups of people who wanted to work together with companies eager to get teams of people ... and filled it (or tried to)!

  • Chief Product & Technology Officer

    2022 - 2024

    Simplifying what it takes to run a merchant business. Some highlights: - Completed a post merger integration of 9 companies & 1000 person organization - Set 5 year vision & 3 year strategy - Fixed & automated payments & capital infrastructures to shift the organization from a SaaS business model to one powered by Financial Services (finance-based revenue from <15% to >60% of total revenue in less than a year) - Brought organization to best in class stability & security practices - Shifted culture to adopt short development cycles & constant experimentation, which resulted in several AI-backed features that went from idea to production in less than a month

2021 - 2022

  • Executive In Residence & Advisor

    2021 - 2022

    Drop-in Executive & Advisor, operating across Alphabet, focused on the Other Bets, X, and GV companies

2007 - 2021

  • General Manager & Vice President, Google Pay & Google Finance

    2018 - 2021

    Founded the Finance product layer for Google with the goal of making finance simple, helpful, & accessible for all

  • Technical Assistant to the CEO

    2018 - 2018

  • Vice President, G Suite

    2013 - 2018

    Brought enterprise focus, shift to mobile, & Google's first consumer AI features

  • Co-Founder & Group Product Manager, Chrome OS & Chromebooks

    2008 - 2013

    Responsible for Google's first consumer hardware products, from CR-48 through the industry’s first mainstream ARM-based laptop

  • Co-Founder & Product Lead, Quick Search Box

    2008 - 2009

    From idea to mass adoption in under a year Integrated QSB into Chrome, Android, & Search

  • Product Lead, Google Desktop

    2007 - 2009

2005 - 2007

  • Associate Consultant

    2005 - 2007

    Consulted in consumer packaged goods, healthcare, real estate, technology, private equity Specialized in process optimizations, growth/investment strategies, int'l expansions, market predictions

  • Optoelectronic Engineer

    2002 - 2002

    Optimized laser system for Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) satellite