Lenny Rachitsky

Author, Lenny’s Newsletter and Lenny’s Podcast

2019 - Current

Angel Investor

2019

Investor in 150+ companies including Figma, Linear, Substack, Vanta, Anduril, Whatnot, Webflow, Descript, Levels, Mindbloom, Reforge, Zip, Stytch, Runway, Census, Pachama, and many more: https://www.lennyrachitsky.com/investing

Product Lead, Supply Growth

2016 - 2019

Led the team responsible for driving consumer supply growth. This included: * Performance marketing * Conversion * Referrals * Awareness and consideration * Re-engagement * Retention * Core host products Previously, led three teams driving Instant Book Growth (grew usage from 5% to over 80%), guest booking conversion, and building new tools for hosts (e.g. dashboards, calendar, guest controls, publishing, messaging). Also supported strategy of the Anti-Discrimination team, and helped on a few side-projects including work with The Malala Fund.

Product Lead, Guest Conversion and Host Quality

2012 - 2016

Drove growth through improvements to guest booking conversion, host experience (acceptance rate, response rate, more), and Instant Book. Drove host quality through launching programs such as Superhost, Mentors, Host Dashboard, host quality standards, revamp of reviews system, and more. Built Airbnb's first host community platform. Built the first attempt at extending Airbnb beyond the home (now Airbnb Experiences).

Co-Founder, CEO

2010 - 2012

Acquired by Airbnb in 2012. Localmind was an early location-based consumer app. We leveraged location data from Foursquare, Facebook, and Gowalla to capture location expertise of locals, enabling Localmind users to get real-time answers to questions about places they are thinking about visiting. https://angel.co/localmind http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-574061 https://techcrunch.com/2012/12/13/airbnb-acquires-localmind/

Engineer, Head of R&D

2009 - 2010

Focused on innovations in web performance, cloud, and web operations, looking 2-5 years down the road. Prototype, research, and build. Also included business development with partners.

Sr. Manager of Engineering

2004 - 2009

Managed the entire engineering department of Webmetrics. This included building the team, building the product, and maintaining a 24/7 operations culture. During this period we were acquired by Neustar, and the team grew 10x.

Lead Engineer

2001 - 2004

Built the core product offering for Webmetrics, a website monitoring and load testing product. Acquired by NeuStar

Web Developer

1998 - 1999

Basic web development for all the LA.com and sister properties (e.g. hawaii.com, texas.com, more)