Andrew Song
Scout at Sequoia Capital
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
CEO and Co-founder
2017 - Current
Established in 2017, Whisper is a team of artificial intelligence, hearing care, hardware, and software experts coming together to solve the challenge of providing better hearing. We set out to make the Whisper Hearing System so our parents, grandparents, friends and teammates can have a tomorrow that sounds even better than today.
Whisper develops AI-enabled, updateable hearing aids for people with hearing loss.
Raised $35,000,000.00 from Ballistic Ventures.
Scout
2018
Helping entrepreneurs in whatever way I can, including early round investments (Angel, Seed, and Series A) via Sequoia's Scout fund.
Sequoia Capital is a VC firm that invests in startups in the energy, financial, enterprise, healthcare, internet, and mobile industries.
Head of Product - Messenger Core
2012 - 2017
Led the product team responsible for the consumer product experiences on Facebook Messenger, including all consumer touch-points and interfaces (navigation, messaging, media, group messaging, etc.) and core product performance (cold/warm start, reliability, etc.). Facebook Messenger grew from ~600M -> 1.2B monthly active users during my time on the team. I'm also passionate about early career development and was involved with the Facebook Rotational PM (RPM) program. I managed several "vintages" of RPMs and later helped develop new RPM managers.
Stay N' Alive Productions, LLC is a social media marketing firm that provides clients with measurable profits.
Software Engineer
2011 - 2011
Google Travel • Developed new UIs for hotel reservation results in Google Web Search, leading to an increase of 33% of hotel search bookings revenue • Designed and developed new Hotel Price Ads (HPA) bidding interface, allowing advertisers to set per-account, per-chain, and per-location reserve prices on their bids
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Software Engineer
2011 - 2011
Site Integrity: designing, developing, and launching Login Approvals (Facebook Two Factor Authentication) [1] [1]: https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150172618258920
Stay N' Alive Productions, LLC is a social media marketing firm that provides clients with measurable profits.
Software Developer
2009 - 2010
Software development at Fog Creek software working on Kiln, a source control system for organizations based on Mercurial. Gave a tech talk about search Parsing and the Irony C# .NET framework. [1] [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX4m08yJ27g
Embedded Software Developer
2009 - 2009
Embedded software developer co-op on the 3G Layer 3 - NAS radio team.
Systems Integration and Test Specialist
2008 - 2008
Feature-level testing for the Blackberry 8350i, an iDEN phone based off of the Blackberry Curve line of products.