Minnie Ingersoll
Podcast Host at LA Venture
Pasadena, California
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2019 - Current
Venture capital firm actively investing in early stage tech companies. Publishing the "LA Venture" podcast weekly.
TenOneTen Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in start-ups that apply data and technology to disrupt existing industries.
Podcast Host
2019
tenoneten.net/podcasts
Lecturer
2019 - 2020
Teaching Product Management to an awesome class of undergrads
Co-Founder
2014 - 2018
Newly public! (Nasdaq : SFT). The platform to make buying and selling cars fun, fair, and accessible to everyone. We have amazing backers, including DFJ, Highland Capital, Goldman Sachs, BMW, and Lithia Motors.
COO
2014 - 2017
Running operations
Shift is an online marketplace for buying and selling used cars.
Raised $504,000,000.00 from SoftBank Capital.
Commissioner
2013 - 2015
Member of 9-person committee responsible for oversight of $2+ billion in municipal bonds and SF’s whistleblower and audit programs.
City and County of San Francisco is the only consolidated city-county in California.
Founder and Team Lead, Google Access
2011 - 2013
Applying technical solutions to foster effective, open and innovative societies. Specifically focused on providing access to information in repressive societies.
Product Manager
2002 - 2011
Co-founded the Access team; a cross-functional product, policy, and engineering team. The team evolved to Google Fiber, which is currently working to bring gigabit 'Fiber to the Home' to Kansas City, Austin and Provo, Utah. In wireless access, Google is working to make TV White Spaces available for unlicensed use, and successfully lobbied to establish openness conditions on the 700 MHz auction (and bid $4.6B for the spectrum). My involvement in Access began with the deployment of a citywide muni Wi-Fi network covering the city of Mountain View, CA. I also worked in search quality at Google, developing a platform to compare Google search results to competitors’. Prior to search quality, I was a product manager on AdWords, responsible for the audit of Google's billing system with a focus on automated budgets.
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.