Giphy
My Giphy experience deserves a memoir itself, but until I get around to that here are the highlights:
- Joined in early 2017, took the company (then a half-unicorn) from pre-revenue to a significant run-rate in 3 years
- Built the ad-product, a search-based advertising model on the 3rd-largest search engine by volume (exc. China) at the time
- Built the sales and revenue operations teams, ~40-50 people
- Led multiple 7- and 8-figure revenue deals
- Owned revenue at the BoD level to investors like Lightspeed, IVP, DFJ and GC
- Won 3 Cannes Lions and 2 CLIO awards
- Spent last 6 months in Corp Dev / Strategy role leading to company’s acquisition by Meta in Q2 2020…
- …Which then got held up by the UK’s Competition & Markets Authority, leading me to spend another year working between Giphy, Meta, and the CMA
- Met my wife at Giphy! Best thing that ever happened to me!
Awesome people: Entirely too many to name + Jen Rubnitz