Pete Koomen
Group Partner at Y Combinator
Pete Koomen
Group Partner at Y Combinator
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Group Partner
2023 - Current
Visiting Group Partner
2022 - 2023
Co-founder
2010 - 2021
Optimizely helps businesses optimize the digital experiences they provide to their customers so they can out-experiment and outperform their competitors.
Co-founder
2009 - 2014
Our goal at CarrotSticks (http://carrotsticks.com) is to provide parents and educators with tools to make learning a more exciting and interactive experience for children. On a marketing budget of $0, we've grown CarrotSticks to more than 50,000 active students in more than 1000 school districts.
Product Manager
2006 - 2009
Product Manager, Google App Engine (http://code.google.com/appengine) Helped launch and grow the App Engine platform to more than 150,000 developers in its first year, with direct involvement in "Campfire One" launch event, front end and API design, messaging, pricing, terms and policies, press interviews, and industry events. Also successfully led the Google "OKR" team, responsible for driving quarterly company goal-setting process with Google founders and executives, for 2 years. Prior to working on App Engine, was an Associate Product Manager on the Adsense team, launching 13 major publisher-facing features in 1 year.