Jimmy Li
Consultant at Twingate
Jimmy Li
Consultant at Twingate
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Consultant
2021 - Current
Twingate's mission is to make "work from everywhere" safe for companies and seamless for their employees. Twingate is backed by leading investors including WndrCo, 8VC, Green Bay Ventures, Accel, SignalFire, and Bond. I work on driving product-led growth and building out data analytics to empower end-to-end visibility of the user journey.
Twingate provides businesses and their distributed workforces with modern, secure remote access to private resources.
Raised $59,000,000.00 from WndrCo, SignalFire, 8VC and Bond.
VP
2016 - 2021
Goodwater is the largest consumer-tech focused venture capital firm in the world, managing over $4B of assets and serving over 200 portfolio companies in 28 countries around the world. Our global family of companies provide innovative technology products that address the daily needs of consumers — housing, health care, food, financial services, transportation, education, and entertainment.
Goodwater Genesis seeks out exceptional entrepreneurs and helps them cultivate the success they deserve.
Business Operations / Corporate Development
2014 - 2016
Sourced and diligenced strategic acquisition opportunities Evaluated and recommended strategies to grow the business in new markets
Dropbox is a smart workspace company that provides secure file sharing, collaboration, and storage solutions.
Raised $1,709,215,000.00 from JP Morgan Chase, RBC Capital, Deutsche Bank, Macquarie Group, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and JPMorgan Partners.
PhD student
2009 - 2014
Affiliated with the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) and the MIT Sloan Marketing group. Applied machine learning to estimate cross-price elasticities and optimize SKU pricing. Teaching assistant for: - 6.041/6.431/6.041x: Probabilistic Systems Analysis (undergraduate, graduate, and online MITx/edX versions) - 6.231: Dynamic Programming & Stochastic Control (graduate level) - 15.730: Data, Models, and Decisions (Executive MBA '13) - 15.809: Marketing Management (Sloan Fellows MBA '13 and '14)
Algorithmic Trading Intern
2011 - 2011
Conceived, coded, and backtested algorithmic trading strategies for S&P and Nasdaq futures using supervised learning
Software Engineer
2008 - 2009
Software engineer on Google Ad Planner: providing data insights on website traffic, audience demographics, and commonly searched keywords
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
China Educational Technology Initiative teacher
2008 - 2008
Developed and taught curricula on Computer Science and American culture to 150 high school and university students in China and Taiwan
Software Engineering Intern
2006 - 2006
Engineering intern on Google Checkout
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.