Bill Bliss

Venture Partner

2020 - Current

Work with GreatScale portfolio companies, in particular Volv.AI, a digital coaching product designed for content creators to enable their followers to form habits and acquire skills using a blend of automated behavior messaging and direct personal interaction.

Retired from Microsoft

2021 - 2021

Microsoft Teams Platform Architect

2016 - 2021

Founding member of the Microsoft Teams developer platform team, and helped design much of the Microsoft Teams developer platform.

Group Program Manager, Microsoft Teams

2015 - 2016

Founding member of the TeamSpace team, which eventually turned into Microsoft Teams.

Program Management Architect

2014 - 2015

Platform Architect for AppEx, responsible for MSN.com, the Internet Explorer and Edge home pages, and the AppEx apps (News, Sports, Weather, Finance, Food & Drink, and Sports).

Partner Group Program Manager

2014 - 2014

Founding member of a startup incubator team inside AppEx - DMX (Do More Experiences), chartered with developing new multi-device applications.

Partner Engineering Manager

2013 - 2014

Defining and delivering new experiences in the Applications and Media Platform (AMP) group, which is responsible for MSN and the Bing applications on Windows 8.x and Windows Phone.

Consultant

2013 - 2013

Assisted Rhapsody (later renamed to Napster) in finalizing and launching a joint venture with a major telecommunications partner.

VP, Product Management

2011 - 2013

Defined and delivered the core platform for Horizon Workspace, a strategic new product for VMware’s EUC (End User Computing) Division as well as ongoing GM responsibility for the SaaS version of its predecessor, Horizon Application Manager.

Managing Partner

2011 - 2011

Roadmap Integrity was a consulting company founded by Bill Bliss with one simple goal: to help senior managers make their companies more effective at creating great software that delivers maximum business impact. It's based on what Bill's learned after almost 25 years of software projects at Microsoft, Expedia, and several smaller companies and startups.

VP & GM, Myspace Search and Recommendations

2009 - 2011

Launched a faster and much more capable internal search platform based on open-source search engine SOLR, a better and faster user experience, a new general-purpose platform for serving recommended content, and the metadata platform underneath Myspace Topic Pages and Facebook Mashup.

VP Emerging Technologies

2007 - 2009

Designed and built a new network management SaaS product, working closely with our Beijing-based development team.

Chief Technology Officer

2006 - 2007

Responsible for engineering, product management, product strategy, and architecture.

SVP, Product

2004 - 2006

VP, Customer Experience

2003 - 2004