Manu Rueda
Cofounder of Ola
Manu Rueda
Cofounder of Ola
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Cofounder
2020 - Current
We're hiring! If you're an ambitious engineer or you know someone, DM me
Fellowship
2020
ODF7 Fellowship - www.beondeck.com
Member Of The Board Of Advisors
2020
Advisory Board Member
Angel Investor
2017
Still learning. Current investments: - Mailtrack https://www.mailtrack.io/ - Hireflix https://www.hireflix.com/ - Housers http://www.housers.com/ - Cabify http://www.cabify.com/ - Goin https://goin.one/ - Kasitoko https://kasitoko.com/ - Chicisimo https://chicisimo.com/ - Badi https://badi.com/ - Kasaz https://www.kasaz.com/ - BNext https://www.bnext.es/ - Lobster https://projectlobster.com/ - Seis https://www.seis.com
Co-Founder and CEO (merged at Circles)
2018 - 2021
One of my biggest passions is helping others fast-forward their lives through Mentoring. Maestro is an exploratory project around how to make Mentoring accessible to anyone, no matter where you live or who you know. Key Milestones: - Create a react native app for testing group interactions via short-form video - Create filters for empowering conversations - Start an online course (Day One) for helping first time tech founders achieve product market fit
Interim Chief Technology Officer
2019 - 2020
Sideways is building the first fully autonomous wheelchair in the world. The applications are endless, from improving the internal operations in B2B spaces like hospitals, airports, shopping centers, up to changing the way we perceive an obsolete industry. Key Achievements: - Help the team with the go-to-market strategy, pivoting twice until finding product-market fit - Create multiple minimum viable products for validating the business models and value proposition - Help on the transition: Define a technical roadmap around the selected niche and implemented a pipeline for hiring a full-time CTO
Advisory
2018 - 2020
First autonomous wheelchair in the world.
Core Team
2018 - 2018
Helped the team design, build and create internal tools for growth
Student
2018 - 2018
What is Tradecraft? The fastest way to break into the startup community. Collaborations: - Astro App (Acquired by Slack) - deep user identification through data analysis - YogiApproved (Top Yoga Website) - improved funnel conversion by onboarding redesign, product and content strategy
Head of Innovation Labs (Artificial Intelligence / Data Science)
2017 - 2018
I am responsible for artificial intelligence R&D projects in the organization. - Define the product strategy and roadmaps - Develop, manage and lead high-profile tech teams around these projects - Understand potential customer needs and translate them into beautiful products Current technologies: artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, natural language understanding, natural language generation
Product Manager
2016 - 2017
I develop secret projects in a secret Lab.
Advisory
2018 - 2018
Discoperi mission is to save lives avoiding accidents through a connected car blockchain network. Their first product, System-eye is a sophisticated system aimed at increasing road safety, through connecting vehicles by leveraging: - internet-of-things for cars - big data analytics - artificial intelligence - blockchain http://discoperi.com/
Professor
2017 - 2018
MIOTI (Madrid Institute of Internet of Things) Data Science teacher. The youngest in the class.
Education
MIT Sloan Artificial Intelligence
2017 - 2018
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
2012 - 2013