Hillary Bush
Founder of Pollen
Hillary Bush
Founder of Pollen
New York City Metropolitan Area
Overview
Work Experience
Founder & CEO
2022 - Current
Pollen is the premier professional development platform for independents, consultants, and solopreneurs.
Raised $5,200,000.00 from ANIMO Ventures, Precursor Ventures, XYZ Venture Capital and Founder Collective.
Angel Investor, Growth Advisor & Consultant
2019
Investments: Outlier.org, MasterClass, Imperfect Foods, Nex.team, TellTail, Getaway, The Renewal Workshop Advisor / Consultant: Adobe, Outlier, Outschool, MT Copeland, Bungalow, AirOps
MBA Associate
2021 - 2022
Founder Collective is a seed-stage venture capital fund, built by a collection of successful entrepreneurs investing in other entrepreneurs. Highlighted investments: Marine Snow, Conceive, Bird & Be, Sylva, realAppeal, AirOps
Founder Collective is a seed-stage venture capital fund that helps entrepreneurs build their businesses.
Investment Partner
2020 - 2022
Dorm Room Fund is the strongest community of entrepreneurial students in the nation.
Senior Product Manager
2020 - 2020
Bungalow is tackling two great challenges of our generation: housing affordability and loneliness. I was responsible for clearing our path to profitability. • Pitched, piloted, and scaled SEO program • Led the effort to make company profitable • Lead PM for top of funnel marketing and operational efficiency • In partnership with CMO, reimagined our marketing strategy in response to covid-19 • Managed a cross-functional team of 20 people (Exec, Design, Eng, Ops, Customer Service)
Product Manager
2019 - 2020
• One of two non-team leads to be a member of the leadership group • Overhauled and built custom tooling systems for 50%+ of employees • Lead PM across multiple product areas: scheduling, maintenance, revenue share • Owned strategy for 2 new lines of business responsible for making the company profitable
Bungalow provides home rental services.
Raised $171,000,000.00 from Atomic, Bossa Invest, Founders Fund, Coatue, Flucas Ventures, Nine Four Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Deer Park Road.
Product Manager
2017 - 2019
MasterClass offers online classes from the world's best, including Gordon Ramsay, Serena Williams, and Carlos Santana and more. I joined as employee 30 and helped grow it to a globally known brand. • Lead PM for organic growth; Owned company-wide organic goals • Managed cross-functional and international team of 15+ people • Led the pilot, launch, and scaling of industry-renowned SEO program: masterclass.com/articles • First recipient of company-wide values award for "Be Passionately Curious" • Defined collaboration best practices that were codified into official "Ways of Working" • Started and led company's first growth team • Lead PM for growth, renewal, and referral • Drove effort to ensure subscription business model was a success
Growth & Community
2016 - 2017
• 3rd Product and Community hire at the company (30th employee) • Managed class launches (Gordon Ramsay, Armin van Buuren, Diane von Furstenberg, and more) • Ran live events with high-profile instructors, laying the foundation for the MasterClass Live program: learn.masterclass.com/masterclasslive
MasterClass is a provider of an online education platform designed to offer video based vocational courses.
Raised $461,400,000.00 from Vershina Capital and Bracket Capital.
Community Associate
2015 - 2016
By lending as little as $25, you can help people around the world create opportunity for themselves and their communities. • Main point of contact for over 850,000 community members • Internal company-wide representative for Kiva's lending community
Kiva is an international non-profit organization that enables families to make small loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries.
Raised $11,800,000.00 from Women’s Global Development and Prosperity Initiative and The Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation.
East African Coffee Initiative Intern
2012 - 2012
TechnoServe works with enterprising people in the developing world to build competitive farms, businesses, and industries.
Technoserve work with enterprising people in the developing world to build competitive farms, businesses and industries.
Raised $3,500,000.00 from Walmart.org.