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.
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.
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
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
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.