Joseph Perla
President at Turntable Labs
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
CEO
2023 - Current
http://Hangout.fm/ hang out online with music
President
2020
Runs Hangout.fm and TurntableLabs.com
SF Lead
2020 - 2020
Recruit volunteers with a medical background to help hospitals in SF manage the newest pandemic patients.
Machine Learning: Level 5 Autonomous Vehicles
2018 - 2019
Autonomous self-driving vehicle safety, localization, SLAM, routing, ETAs, autonomous safety, Machine Learning & Deep Learning.
Senior Manager: Passenger Acquisition / Growth
2015 - 2018
Launched the Round Up & Donate brand strategy feature, as well as Lyft Gift Cards. Responsible for Passenger Acquisition. Helped build out the new Growth Org, including managing Driver Growth as well, and increased passenger growth rate 5X+. In charge of Passenger Acquisition during biggest growth period from 8 to 33% market share vs Uber (2 to 22 million MAU).
Lyft’s Atlanta driver service center is a high quality, fairly-priced vehicle services.
Plato Mentor - Engineering Leadership
2017 - 2018
Plato (www.platohq.com) is a network of experienced engineering leaders, assembled to help other engineering leaders find their perfect mentor for their management/leadership challenges
Plato helps engineering leaders develop soft skills and build better teams.
Raised $3,300,000.00 from 2 | Twelve, Ron Pragides, Slack, FundersClub, Luc Vincent and Kevin Moore.
Co-Founder
2014 - 2015
After investing early, I worked with the founder to source and close an additional $4.2MM in funding. We built a team of 10 engineers and launched a new, fast public cloud, which has reached over 100,000 Terminal initializations and continues to grow. We were acquired by Udacity.
Tech Lead, News Feed for iPhone
2012 - 2013
I worked with the people manager to build and lead a team of 7 engineers to launch a successful redesign of the News Feed on iOS that significantly increased usage. I also helped with leadership of the autoplay videos team (which had engineers in both SF and London) and we launched videos within the News Feed on all mobile platforms.
Stay N' Alive Productions, LLC is a social media marketing firm that provides clients with measurable profits.
Co-Founder / VP of Technology
2010 - 2011
The site streamed over a million songs per day at its peak.
Co-Founder, CTO
2007 - 2010
I architected, built, and led a team of 2 engineers to build this social network and document management tool for scientists, funded by Peter Thiel. The site reached over 500,000 unique visitors a month at its peak.
Co-Founder
2005 - 2007
I architected, built, and led a team of 3 engineers to build the first version of this social network for college students. Became Zinch. Eventually acquired by Chegg.