Mike Fridgen
Managing Director & CEO of Madrona Venture Labs
Mike Fridgen
Managing Director & CEO of Madrona Venture Labs
Seattle, Washington
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Director & CEO
2015 - Current
Madrona Venture Labs is a startup studio that co-builds and invests in enterprise AI companies. Founding Managing Director of Madrona Venture Labs II, III, IV, and V. Board member or advisor to: Uplevel, Style Genome (acquired by Wayfair), Domicile (acquired by NCH), Vouched, Chatitive (acquired by Mailchimp), Strike Graph, Stratify, Outbound AI, Pendulum, Xembly, Muir.ai, Magnify, Storia AI, FinPilot, Charmed, Codified, heyLibby, Augmend (acquired by DataDog), Tektonic, and Otto the Agent.
Advisory Board Member for Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship
2014
Mission: The Buerk Center integrates entrepreneurship into the fabric of the University of Washington and empowers students to shape the future.
General Manager
2013 - 2015
Joined eBay as part of their Decide.com acquisition. General Manager of eBay's Seattle office of approximately 400 people and it's big data hub. Product leader for Seller Hub and professional selling experiences for eBay’s worldwide sites.
President & CEO
2010 - 2013
Founding CEO of Decide.com which was acquired by eBay in September 2013. Decide was a shopping service that helped consumers purchase with “no regrets”. Utilizing propriety data and predictive algorithms, Decide.com helped shoppers know what to buy and when to buy it. Decide raised $17M from Madrona Venture Group, Maveron and Vulcan Capital, and several angel investors.
Director, Product Management
2008 - 2010
Joined Microsoft's Bing search as part of their Farecast.com acquisition. Leader of global shopping and travel search businesses for Bing.
VP Marketing & Product
2005 - 2008
Member of the founding team responsible for leading product development and marketing from pre-product/launch through acquisition by Microsoft in April of 2008. Farecast raised $20M from Madrona Venture Group, Greylock, Sutter Hill and angel investors.
Director, Interactive Marketing
2004 - 2005
Online marketing strategy and team leadership for over $1B ecommerce site alaskaair.com.
CEO & co-founder
1996 - 2000
TripHub/ISTOURS was acquired by USA Student Travel in summer of 2000. TripHub.com was a Madrona Venture Group backed student travel startup.
Education
MBA
2001 - 2003