About
Coach. Advisor. Operator. CEO.
I'm currently a coach and advisor to startup founders, as a partner at Enjoy The Work. Before that I was CEO of Onward and led product teams at Airbnb. Before that, two more companies. The details below.
Partner, Enjoy The Work.
ETW helps great founders become great CEOs.
A partnership of ten experienced and successful former operators. Since 2015, we've worked with more than 140 startups via immersive 1-on-1 coaching and advisory. Our companies have a combined value of over $14B and are based all over the world — Tel Aviv, Karachi, Montréal, London, New York, the San Francisco Bay Area.
Before ETW.
Three companies founded, funded, and grown. Three exits. Four years inside Airbnb during the scaling years — from 400 employees to 9,000.
Co-founder & CEO.
Onward · acquired by Royal Ambulance
We built the largest ride-sharing service for seniors in California. Acquired by Royal Ambulance in 2021. An incredible run with two great co-founders.
Product Lead.
Airbnb · Lux + Airbnb for Work
Four years inside Airbnb during the scaling years — from roughly 400 employees to 9,000. Two years leading product for the Lux business unit, managing 6 PMs across supply growth, host and guest experience, concierge, payments, infra. Before that, first product hire on Airbnb for Work: launched the first product in Aug 2015 and grew the business from $0 to $2B in revenue.
Co-founder.
Kapost · acquired by Upland Software
B2B content marketing operations platform. Built it in Boulder with Toby and Nader. Grew to 120 people and $15M ARR. Raised $16M from Floodgate, Salesforce, LeadEdge, and Cueball. Got engaged, married, and had two kids along the way.
Co-founder.
Qloud · acquired by BuzzMedia
One of the early Facebook-platform apps — connected your iTunes to Facebook so you could play music from your library or your friends'. Grew to over 10M monthly users. Acquired by BuzzMedia (now SpinMedia) in early 2008.
Twelve people at acquisition; many now running things. Pedro → CTO at 1Password (formerly VP Platform, Facebook). Jim DeLorenzo → Head of Amazon Sports/Video. Noah → CEO of The Action Network.
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