Founder, CEO
Porch
CEO and Co-founder of Porch, the first and only home improvement network. Porch has organized massive amounts of home improvement data to help homeowners be better informed when improving and repairing their homes and hiring a home service professional. Check us out: www.porch.com. Porch will be launching nationally on Sept 17, at which time anyone in the US can explore neighbors' home projects, see what they spent, and the professionals they used and loved. Finding the best service professional for your specific home and project is now easy. -- Previously: Founder and CEO of my first technology startup. Stopped out of Stanford, learned how to build companies, and grew to 65 people and a very successful acquisition. Next, grew the acquirer Active Network as its Chief Strategy Officer to a May '11 IPO. -- Published as a contributing writer in: Forbes, FastCompany, WSJ Accelerators, Inc, Mashable, Yahoo! Small Business, VentureBeat, Fox Business, AMEX Open, NYER, CEO Nation -- Porch is hiring! We are looking for people with unique abilities, are exceptionally bright, and want to be part of building something great from the beginning. We are a very well-funded team of 30 employees and are growing explosively. Available positions include developers in both Seattle and San Diego, and sales, support, product, controller, HR/recruiting, and admin in our Seattle headquarters. Take a look at http://about.porch.com/careers