Forever building online cities.
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- CEO at Newco
- Past
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- Entrepreneur-in-residence at Trinity Ventures
- Senior Director, Product at Yahoo
- Co-Founder & Director, Product at Bix.com, Inc.
- Education
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Leonard Speiser’s Summary
I love building products that enable communities.
Leonard Speiser’s Specialties:
Product Management
Leonard Speiser’s Experience
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CEO
Newco
(Internet industry)
May 2009 — Present (7 months)
From May to October my partner and I built a research lab that ran consumer web experiments mostly on the Twitter platform (12 products tested in total which can be found on http://www.twables.com). We learned that Public Stream Optimization (PSO) works very different than Search Engine Optimization (SEO). To help people and companies succeed in the stream, we are now building a new type of publishing platform that will extend any social network (Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, etc.) onto your own website. 2010 is the year the social network walled garden comes down. Contact me to sign up for the Test Program.
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Entrepreneur-in-residence
Trinity Ventures
(Partnership; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
February 2009 — May 2009 (4 months)
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Senior Director, Product
Yahoo
(Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)
February 2007 — February 2009 (2 years 1 month)
General manager of Yahoo Groups
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Co-Founder & Director, Product
Bix.com, Inc.
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
February 2006 — February 2009 (3 years 1 month)
Responsible for Product Management, UED and Business Management of online contest website. Acquired by Yahoo in February 2007.
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Group Product Manager
eBay
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ebay; Internet industry)
December 2000 — April 2005 (4 years 5 months)
Managed team of seven product managers responsible for My eBay, View Item, Want-it-Now, Toolbar, Registration, Home Page, and Favorites.
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Founder, CEO
Pinacus
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
December 1999 — December 2000 (1 year 1 month)
Founded company to assist small/medium size businesses in the acquisition of content from their communities (similar to a wiki, but with editorial control given to the company).
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Manager, Business Development
Intuit
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; INTU; Computer Software industry)
August 1998 — November 1999 (1 year 4 months)
Responsible for entry into new products/markets via a combination of partnerships and internal product development.
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Associate/Analyst
CSFB Technology Group
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Investment Banking industry)
July 1996 — August 1998 (2 years 2 months)
Responsible for Corporate Finance and M&A for a variety of technology companies.
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Founder/CEO
ScreenFire
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 1996 — July 1998 (2 years 4 months)
Founded first internet-based client/server instant messaging system.
Leonard Speiser’s Education
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
S.B. , Urban Planning , 1992 — 1996
- Activities and Societies:
- Delta Tau Delta, The Tech
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Leonard Speiser’s Interests:
Military history, cooking
Leonard Speiser’s Groups:
Startup2Startup, Round Zero
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