Chris Messina

General Partner

2023 - Current

Product Lead

2022 - 2022

Responsible for the Founder Experience on Republic, I lead efforts to migrate internal processes from spreadsheets to a robust Airtable database, and to migrate from the Pipedrive CMS to Salesforce. I lead the design, development, and launch of Teaser Pages, the fastest way to start raising with Republic.

Head of West Coast Business Development

2021 - 2022

Charged with expanding the presence of equity crowdfunding platform Republic on the West Coast and throughout Silicon Valley.

Community Developers Council (CDC) Member

2021 - 2022

As an elected representative of the Rally Creator Ecosystem, I advocated for Creator Coin utilization by the broader Rally developer ecosystem by building a grant in-take system, and provided guidance and feedback on marketing efforts, and worked with the other members of the Community Developer Council to deploy 1 million $RLY per quarter to grant applicants.

Course Creator Fellow

2021 - 2021

Product Therapist

2020 - 2021

Providing product design, product strategy, marketing, and launch guidance for the world's top makers, entrepreneurs, and internet innovators.

Fellow

2020 - 2020

Participating as a fellow in the On Deck Cohort 4. Learn more about the program here: beondeck.com

Product Design Consultant

2019 - 2020

Consultant

2018 - 2018

Co-Founder

2017 - 2018

Executed branding, product and UI design (iOS, desktop and mobile web), product and launch strategy, onboarding the first 200 influencers, and building the initial community, and growing Molly's subscriber base to 20K members.

Organizer

2016 - 2017