Jonathan Wegener
Member at South Park Commons
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
Overview
Work Experience
Member
2023 - Current
Experimenting with wild emotional applications of AI -- "Future" Timehop. How can we use AI to help us imagine our futures and reconceive our life story? Also a hardware experiment or two :)
South Park Commons is a fund and community of technologists dedicated to helping each other explore, learn, and go from -1 to 0.
Founder
2018 - 2021
Built the first AirPods entertainment company. Raised $3mm from the founders of Oculus, YouTube, HQ Trivia, Tinder, Google Photos, Tumblr, EventBrite, Venmo, GroupMe, MakeSpace and more. Built an amazing tech team (ex-Google/YouTube/Apple/Snapchat) and content team (an Oscar winner-led creative team, a head of content from Nickelodeon, lots of Broadway/Hollywood talent) Created a new class of experiences that leap off the screen and into the real world. However none gained mass adoption or found sustainable growth/retention. We dissolved the company at the end of 2021. -- Our products * PartnerPlay.com invented interactive erotica -- delightful, joyful, intimate shared experiences. Split the AirPods with a partner and you'll hear opposite sides of the same story that you roleplay together. * PairPlayApp.com focused on kids aged 6-9 — become characters in a narrative game where your home becomes a rich cinematic universe. We saw huge smiles and great feedback, but saw kids struggling to use AirPods * GoGoGames.com similar to PairPlay, but focused on speakerphone audio (instead of AirPods) and iPad instead of iPhone. * MadeWithLumo.com transforms your iPad into a lightbox you draw on with real pen and paper, bringing beautiful audio stories to life.
Product Designer
2017 - 2017
Worked on Evan’s team doing ████████ and ███ with a particular focus on ██████. And don’t forget ███.
Snap is a technology company that offers the products Snapchat, Spectacles, and Bitmoji.
Raised $5,553,527,880.00 from Alwaleed Bin Talal and Tencent.
CEO/Co-Founder
2011 - 2017
Timehop invented "photos from a year ago today" and became a top iPhone app in the United States with over 25 million registered users. Even a decade later, it continues to have millions of daily users and has inspired copycat products at Facebook, Apple, Google Photos etc As CEO/Co-founder, Led fundraising, product, strategy, support, and ops. I raised $14M in funding (Spark Capital, OATV, and Shasta Ventures), built a ~20 person team, and led the company to profitability.
Timehop offers Nimbus, a mobile, and in-app header bidding solution.
Raised $14,118,000.00 from Oreilly AlphaTech Ventures, Randi Zuckerberg, Shasta Ventures, Spark and Spark Capital.
Owner
2008 - 2011
Holding company for a bunch of stuff: • My Angel investments (MakeSpace, SudoWrite, Capsule Video, Nas Daily / nas.io, Shef, Pachama, Positive Foods, Calixa, Bloomscape, Rebel Foods India, Rolemance/Embrace/Unreal, SecurityPal,Terrible Merch, The Fund LA, The Fund NYC, Vivvi) • Exit Strategy NYC (2009-present) (www.exitstrategynyc.com) - Created beloved iPhone, Android and Blackberry(!!) apps which received coverage from NYTimes, NY Post, NY Magazine, Wired Magazine, NY1 and others. Selected by Apple as a ‘featured’ iPhone app. • FindTheMohel.com - Designed, coded, and SEO-ed a niche lead generation website that helps parents find Mohels - Mentioned in NY Magazine: http://bit.ly/aqEk4y Consulting: • GroupMe (2010) | product design, analytics. • Loosecubes (2010) | iPhone App wireframes. • AppFund (2009) | product design and strategy. Prioritized feature set to define the minimal viable product and created feature roadmap, Defined functional requirements and designed wireframes and mockups, Connected high-level product vision to tangible product. • DenseBrain (2010) | Produced functional specification document and use cases for a large brand's facebook app. • Drop.io (2008) | managed product launch marketing for site redesign. Managed social-media channels, blogger outreach; wrote press releases and marketing materials. • SkillSlate (2008) | SEO strategy and HTML optimization. • MyMohel.com (2009) | Implemented SEM campaign and call tracking solution. • 2010 Designed websites and created SEM/SEO strategies for several local businesses (dvirsalon.com, lenakoro.com, brooklyndogwalk.net, yourbestcollegeessay.com)
Founder, CEO
2010 - 2010
Not really.
Business Development Manager
2008 - 2008
Marketing, PR, Business Strategy, and Bizdev for a small tech startup in DUMBO building the first open and transparent online lead generation marketplace. https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/11/pontiflex-funding/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/30/pontiflex-raises-25-million-in-series-a-funding/
Management Consultant
2007 - 2008
Digital media strategy for a large US newswire service
Mitchell Madison Group is a California-based consultancy firm that provides management consultancy solutions to corporate clients.
Laboratory Research Assistant
2005 - 2006
Worked in a biology lab in college performing experiments working on a cure for addiction: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/2000-02/07/007r-020700-idx.html
Columbia University Irving Medical Center is a clinical and educational enterprise that offers medical, dental, and nursing services.
Education
BA
2003 - 2007