CB

Chris Bakke

Founder

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview

Work Experience

  • X

    2023 - 2024

    Supported a young, hungry, relatively-unknown entrepreneur named Elon Musk in his quest to turn X into the everything app. Billions in revenue, hundreds of millions of monthly active users, and tens of millions of times I have personally fixed the office espresso machine.

  • Founder, CEO

    2021 - 2024

    Helping companies hire great people. Laskie was acquired by X/Twitter in 2023.

  • Head of Product, Central

    2019 - 2020

    Led product for a suite of enterprise products where more than 250 million people search for jobs, post resumes, and research companies each month.

  • Co-Founder, Indeed Assessments

    2017 - 2019

    In August of 2017, Indeed acquired Interviewed and our team built the largest, most helpful assessment company in the world. We have over 600,000 customers, and our clients send millions of assessments each week.

  • Founder

    2015 - 2017

    Companies use Interviewed to quickly and accurately determine which candidates are the right fit for the role. We were acquired by Indeed.com in 2017.

  • Chief Operating Officer

    2013 - 2015

    42Floors is the first true search platform for commercial real estate. Raised $17.5m from Y Combinator, Thrive Capital, NEA, and Bessemer, and was acquired by Knotel.

  • Director of Business Development

    2011 - 2013

    Zillow (Nasdaq $Z) is the largest real estate marketplace where users can easily find vital information about homes, and connect with reputable, local professionals.

  • Director of Business Development

    2010 - 2012

    RentJuice connects prospective renters, brokers and property managers to each other in real-time. We raised $6m from Thrive Capital, Highland Capital, DFJ, and more, and were acquired by Zillow for $40m.

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