Primary Job Title Co-Founder and Managing Partner Primary Organization 3Rodeo
Location Santa Monica, California, United States Regions Greater Los Angeles Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
Website www.3rodeo.com LinkedIn View on LinkedIn
Operator and evangelist for frontier technologies; emphasizing the impact of disruptive change in the short run and building sustainable strategies for the long run.
Presently Chief Operating Officer for Community.com, a messaging platform designed to allow individuals and their audiences to communicate in a truly personal fashion, scaling
through the use of bare metal technology and NLP insights.
Concurrently Managing Partner for 3Rodeo, an entrepreneur-led Venture Capital firm based in Los Angeles, investing in mission-driven founders focused on deep technologies and societal disruption, with an emphasis on machine learning.
Previously, CEO for Vhoto, a computer vision startup that used machine learning technology to create a semantic understanding of video content to find the very best moments. This technology operated locally on the iPhone GPU. Vhoto was acquired by Hulu in 2015.
As VP of Partnerships for Hulu, led deals with partners like Spotify, resulting in the growth of 8M+ new subscribers. Also led Hulu's virtual reality division, executive producing several novel content series.
Previously, as an Executive Producer at Activsion, helped grow Call of Duty from a popular cinematic experience to the most played multiplayer franchise in the world.
Originally Founder of a multi-platform MMO startup which was asset-purchased by Microsoft. At Microsoft, designed, patented and managed emergent social technology for the newly created Xbox and Xbox Live. Gamertag: Noah.
My views are strongly held and weakly defended (hat tip: Ray Dalio).
