Noah Glass
Founder of Founder Collective
Noah Glass
Founder of Founder Collective
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Founder & CEO
2005 - Current
Olo is the on-demand interface for the restaurant industry, powering digital ordering and delivery for an exclusive network of restaurant brands. Olo’s enterprise-grade software powers every stage of the digital restaurant transaction, from fully-branded guest interfaces to the back-of-house order management features that keep the kitchen running smoothly. Orders from Olo are injected seamlessly into existing systems to help brands capture demand from on-demand channels such as the brand’s website and app, third-party marketplaces, social media channels, and personal assistant devices like the Amazon Echo. Olo is a pioneer in the industry, beginning with text message ordering on mobile feature phones in 2005. Today, millions of consumers use Olo to order ahead and Skip the Line® or get meals delivered from the restaurants they love. Clients include Applebee’s (DIN), Chili’s (EAT), Denny’s (DENN), Five Guys Burgers & Fries, Jamba Juice (JMBA), Noodles & Company (NDLS), Shake Shack (SHAK), sweetgreen, Wingstop (WING), and more. Learn more at www.olo.com.
Founder Partner
2019
The Founder Partner program has been an important part of our fund since its inception. It’s designed to be mutually beneficial, whereby we support our Founder Partners in paying-it-forward by assisting in their angel investing while we, and our portfolio, get the benefit of the experience of these world-class founders. Over the last two decades, I’ve benefited tremendously from watching the Olo story unfold, and I’d be thrilled if our most recently funded companies made Noah a role model. We’re thrilled to have Noah join a team that includes Dia&Co CEO Nadia Boujarwah, SeatGeek CEO Jack Groetzinger, Tamr CEO Andy Palmer, Firebase founder James Tamplin, Bloomreach CEO Raj De Datta, and serial entrepreneur Zach Klein, and can’t wait to see what we can cook up together.
Trustee
2017
Founded in 1946, The Culinary Institute of America is the world’s premier culinary college. Dedicated to developing leaders in foodservice and hospitality, the independent, not-for-profit CIA offers bachelor’s degrees in management, culinary arts, culinary science, and applied food studies, and associate degrees in either culinary arts or baking and pastry arts. The college also offers executive education through its Food Business School along with certificate programs and courses for professionals and enthusiasts. Its conferences, leadership initiatives, and consulting services have made the CIA the think tank of the food industry and its worldwide network of nearly 50,000 alumni includes innovators in every area of the food business. The CIA has locations in New York, California, Texas, and Singapore. For more information, visit www.ciachef.edu.
Board Director
2017
Share Our Strength began in the basement of a row house on Capitol Hill in 1984, in response to the ‘84-‘85 famine in Ethiopia. Brother and sister Bill and Debbie Shore started the organization with the belief that everyone has a strength to share in the global fight against hunger and poverty, and that in these shared strengths lie sustainable solutions. Today we focus these strengths on making No Kid Hungry a reality in America. We see a future where kids have access to the healthy food they need, every day. Kids will get a healthy breakfast every day at school so they’re ready to learn, and they won’t have to worry about how they’re going to eat when school is out for the summer when the safety net of school meals isn’t available to them. Rather than feeling the stress of food insecurity, kids will just be able to be, well, kids.
Chief Line Skipper
2005
Nicknamed “the Fandango of Food” by New York Magazine, Mobo (www.gomobo.com) allows over 75 million customers to place orders online or from a mobile device, so they can Skip the Line® at their favorite restaurants.
Chairman of Self Service Order Interface (SSOI) Work Team of ARTS
2011 - 2012
Leading restaurant technology providers and hospitality chains have joined forces to make point-of-sale (POS) integration easy for self-service ordering providers implementing mobile ordering, online ordering, kiosk ordering, and/or call-center ordering. Noah Glass, the Founder & CEO of Olo, was elected to Chair the Self-Service Order Interface (SSOI) [pronounced "soy"] Work Team for the Association for Retail Technology Standards (ARTS) of the National Retail Federation. The new SSOI Work Team will create an open standard for the interface between POS systems and self-service ordering systems. SSOI will help to reduce the cost for restaurants and retailers to implement self-service ordering programs and make self-service ordering programs less costly to maintain. SSOI will provide restaurants and retailers with greater flexibility in selecting both POS and self-service ordering technology providers. "For years, restaurants have struggled to integrate self-service ordering programs with their point-of-sale systems," said Jim Melvin, Member of the SSOI Work Team and leading industry expert. "The time has come for an open standard that allows restaurants, retailers, and technology providers to accelerate the pace of innovation and better serve guests," Melvin added. Glass will serve as the Work Team Chairman, leading a group of top POS firms, technology providers, and hospitality technology executives who will join forces to draft SSOI. "Consumers have come to expect faster, personalized, on-demand experiences through self-service ordering," Glass said. "Restaurants and retailers across the globe can see that self-service ordering is as big of a revolution as the drive-thru window. Self-service ordering is now an imperative. For over six years, Olo has worked to break down barriers to innovation in the hospitality industry. I am honored to be involved with this new effort to create an open standard."
International Expansion Manager
2003 - 2005
Launched first African Endeavor affiliate office: Endeavor South Africa. Spent 9 months on the ground in Johannesburg raising funding, building board, hiring management team, and leading initial Search & Selection process, finding inaugural class of eight dynamic Endeavor Entrepreneurs Led international expansion analysis to create expansion plan for leading organization in high-growth entrepreneur development in emerging markets
Product Manager Intern
2000 - 2000
I came into college thinking I wanted to be a lawyer. Shutterfly was my first .com experience and I was hooked. High-flying times in Summer 2000.