Ashton Brown
formerly at Hyper/Product Hunt
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Head of Programs & Community
2021 - 2022
Hyper, Product Hunt's sister company, is a radically different accelerator where founders work with unicorn founders on their growth and product. - Part of the founding team (1st hire) responsible for building and launching Hyper to the world, leading to investments by Sequoia & a16z, thousands of applications, millions of impressions, and 45+ investments - Created and led a new founder accelerator program and community (>80+ NPS)
Hyper is an early-stage venture firm focused on the things modern startups.
Program Manager
2019 - 2021
Sequoia helps the daring build legendary companies. - Helped design and led the seed- and early-stage founder programs and community (>80+ NPS) - Led the successful launch of the founder app to hundreds of Sequoia founders - Designed and analyzed our annual founder survey which supported our firm-wide OKR process - Conductive a qualitative and quantitative research project to create customer/user personas and journey
Sequoia Capital is a VC firm that invests in startups in the energy, financial, enterprise, healthcare, internet, and mobile industries.
Program Operations & Customer Success
2017 - 2019
Everwise was the integrated platform for L&D leaders to deliver, manage, and measure employee growth at scale. - Co-led and supported the strategy, delivery, and success of 30+ high-touch L&D programs for over 2,000 participants (80+ companies), helping generate over 4M in revenue - Supported the UX of Everwise’s platform via L&D experience creation, content, and group moderation - Helped define metrics and analyze data to communicate insights to customers, leading to renewals
Operations Manager, EverwiseWomen
2017 - 2017
Program Coordinator, EverwiseWomen
2016 - 2017
Everwise’s software and services connect employees to the experts and insights they need to be successful at every stage of their career
Raised $27,478,595.00 from Webb Investment Network, Four Rivers Group, Canvas Ventures and Sequoia Capital.
Operations Manager
2015 - 2016
Smarking puts all of your parking data on one dashboard, in real-time. - Managed business operations including daily company meals, employee equipment, swag, travel, conference materials, contracts, payroll, insurance, utilities, and vendor management. - Built out talent recruitment, including strategy, leading to the hire of 4 employees to a 12-person team. - Managed projects for the CEO, Sales, Eng, and AM teams including product QA, company comms, etc.
Smarking is an information technology company that provides business intelligence and yield management solutions.
Raised $3,000,000.00 from Y Combinator, DN Capital, Rough Draft Ventures, FinSight Ventures, SVS Ventures, Wei Guo, Nurzhas Makishev, Konstantin Stiskin, Kenneth Ballenegger and UpHonest Capital.
General Manager
2014 - 2015
The MonOrchid is a versatile, artistically driven venue in the heart of the Roosevelt Row Arts District in Arizona. - Led an assessment of the current state of the business, creating a go-forward strategy. - Organized details of the venue including planning and management, - Redesigned the website and marketing, leading to a better experience and hundreds of additional leads. - Owned sales across multiple categories, leading to an over 400% increase in sales in one year. - Setup and streamlined operations, leading to a 20% cut in building expenses.
Program Manager
2013 - 2014
Inspire Arizona (now Inspire2Vote) supports non-partisan efforts to promote voter registration and civic activism among high school students. - Part of the founding team (1st hire) - Supported the development of the organization and foundational program - Served as an expert advisor to 25 students on volunteer management, voter registration, and more. - Recruited and assisted in the recruitment of 200+ students from 40+ high schools throughout Arizona
Intern
2012 - 2012
Intern
2010 - 2010
Intern
2009 - 2009