Lex Bayer
Growth Leader | Previously: CEO of Quizlet
Lex Bayer
Growth Leader | Previously: CEO of Quizlet
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Chief Executive Officer
2022 - 2023
Quizlet is a global learning platform that provides engaging AI-enhanced study tools used by 2 in 3 high school students and 1 in 2 college students in the US. Leadership of the company into profitability, revenue growth, and the largest number of new products launched for back-to-school in the company’s history, including Q-chat, an AI tutor, and Magic Notes, which automatically turns class notes into powerful study tools.
Quizlet is a learning platform that uses activities and games to help students practice and master what they’re learning.
Raised $62,000,000.00 from General Atlantic.
CEO
2018 - 2020
Starship Technologies is an on-demand delivery service powered by fleets of self-driving robots. Leadership of the company from the R&D phase to finding product-market-fit, generating revenue, and scaling the business. Grew the total number of autonomous deliveries 200x from approx. 5,000 to one million.
Starship Technologies is a robotics company building fleets of self-driving delivery robots designed to deliver goods.
Raised $287,715,822.00 from Plural and Iconical.
Group Head of Business Development, Payments, and Airbnb for Work • CEO Airbnb Payments Inc.
2013 - 2017
Built from inception and concurrently led four teams at Airbnb: • Business Development: Global team responsible for all strategic partnerships across the organization. • Payments: Our online payment and reservation platform. • Airbnb for Work: Bringing Airbnb to corporate travel programs around the world. • Monetization: Revenue management, pricing, and value-added services
Lake Swan Properties is a holiday home rental company.
Angel Investor, Advisor
2013 - 2013
➤ Member of Airbnb alumni's AirAngels Fund I ➤ Marketplaces: • UpNest (http://www.upnest.com/). Acquired by Realtor.com ➤ Payments: • Sezzle (http://sezzle.com/). Listed on the ASX: SZL • SnapScan (http://www.snapscanapp.com/). Acquired by Standard Bank ➤ Healthcare: • Freya Biosciences (https://freyabiosciences.com/) • LiftLabs (http://www.liftware.com/). Acquired by Google
General Manager, PlaySpan Division
2011 - 2012
Doubling of PlaySpan revenues, integration of PlaySpan into Visa and the launch of Visa's digital wallet V.me
Visa Research conducts applied research on the most challenging problems in the payment industry.
General Manager
2009 - 2012
Key member of the executive team that took PlaySpan through triple digit growth, Series C funding and its acquisition by Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) in March 2011 for over $190M.
CEO, Co-founder
2007 - 2009
Grew the company from its founding to a user base of 5M wallet accounts. Spare Change was acquired by PlaySpan in April 2009.
Vice President, Product Development and R&D
2005 - 2008
Key member of the executive team that took Avantis through Series A and B funding. Established and led the product and engineering teams, and took the product from initial concept, through FDA approval, clinical trials and initial sales.
Senior Engineering Manager, Sensors
2001 - 2005
Led the technical development and commercialization of a high volume, low cost inertial sensor for 3D motion controllers. Gyration was acquired by Thomson in July 2004.