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Maneesh Arora
Founder of MightyText
Mountain View, California
Overview
Maneesh Arora is the CEO & Co-Founder of MightyText, with a background that includes leadership roles at Lyft, Zynga, and Google. He has a strong track record in product management and mobile applications, with a focus on scaling start-ups and building strategic partnerships.
Work Experience
CEO & Co-Founder
2018 - Current
MightyText is iMessage + iCloud for Android. 9+ Million users. 150 Billion messages sync'd https://mightytext.com MightyText is a real-time sync of Text Messages, Notifications, Phone Calls, Photos/Videos, and other phone activity between your Android phone & computer/tablet. It uses your existing Android phone number, so everything stays completely in sync between the phone and computer/tablet. No extra phone numbers. Users have called it "iMessage for Android". MightyText is funded by notable investors including First Round Capital, Charles River Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, 500 Startups, AngelList’s Naval Ravikant, Scott Banister, ex-Google PM Director Rich Chen, Ram Shriram, Guitar Hero creator Kai Huang, Chegg founder Aayush Phumbra, and several others. MightyLove: https://mightytext.com/love Press: https://mightytext.com/press
MightyText is a messaging app that enables users to send and receive text and MMS messages via computers and android phones.
Raised $750,000.00 from Hard Yaka, Founder Friendly Labs and RightVentures.
Lead Product Manager
2016 - 2018
Lyft’s Atlanta driver service center is a high quality, fairly-priced vehicle services.
CEO & Co-Founder
2012 - 2016
MightyText is iMessage + iCloud for Android. 8 Million users. Over 100 Billion messages sync'd https://mightytext.net MightyText is a real-time sync of SMS, Notifications, Photos/Videos, Phone Calls & other phone activity between your Android phone & computer. It uses your existing Android phone number, so all text messages stay completely in sync between the phone and computer. No extra phone numbers. Users have called it "iMessage for Android". MightyText is funded by notable investors including First Round Capital, Charles River Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, 500 Startups, AngelList’s Naval Ravikant, Scott Banister, ex-Google PM Director Rich Chen, Ram Shriram, Guitar Hero creator Kai Huang, Chegg founder Aayush Phumbra, and several others. MightyLove: https://mightytext.net/love Press: https://mightytext.net/press
MightyText is a messaging app that enables users to send and receive text and MMS messages via computers and android phones.
Raised $750,000.00 from Hard Yaka, Founder Friendly Labs and RightVentures.
Senior Product Manager
2010 - 2010
Zynga is a mobile game developer that creates and operates social games as live services played on the Internet.
Raised $2,318,550,786.00 from Kleiner Perkins, T. Rowe Price, Morgan Stanley and Fidelity.
Product Manager
2005 - 2010
---- Consumer Product Team ---- - Launched Google Health, which allows consumers to manage their personal health record online. - Led execution of the Google Health partner platform and developer APIs, which enabled leading hospitals, pharmacies, labs, and other third parties to securely exchange health records with Google Health using the GData API using OAuth. - Drove successful integrations of all strategic partners onto the Google Health platform, including Walgreens, Cleveland Clinic, CVS Caremark, and Quest Diagnostics. - Drove launch of new Google Health features: User Sharing, Lab Results, partner directory and API permission management. ---- Ads Product Team ---- - Launched AdWords Reseller Program. Scoped and designed unique product features (MCC single sign on, AdWords API) to support management of millions of new advertisers through channel partnerships. - Drove program growth: $0 to ~$300 million revenue run rate and acquired > 1 million new advertisers in under three years - AdWords Agency and Third Party Products: Managed product requirements and roadmap for: My Client Center, Google Advertising Professionals, AdWords Reseller Program, products under which 45% Google’s advertiser spend was managed (as of 2008)
Senior Sales Engineer
2003 - 2005
• Supported partnership team responsible for over 60% of Google’s revenue with technical expertise on a suite of Google products including: WebSearch, AdSense for Search/Content, Google Book Search, Local Search, Google Toolbar • Awarded “Google Founders Award” in 2005 on Google AdSense • Helped close deals with key early partners: AOL, About.com, NY Times, Real Networks, Lycos, Earthlink, T-Online • Developed new tools, conducted demos, and suggested technical implementation options to partners to maximize new product adoption and revenue • Worked with sales finance on deal models to determine how technical implementation and UI integration impacts monetization • Assisted Legal in drafting custom language for complex or non-standard technical use cases of Google Services • Recognized as a go-to person for expertise around new products (e.g. Local Search) based on strong rapport and trust built with product, engineering, legal, and sales teams.
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Senior Technical Manager
2000 - 2003
Technical Lead
1998 - 2000
Technical Consultant
1997 - 1998
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