Peter Rojas
Founder of Betaworks Ventures
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Senior Director of Product Management
2023 - 2024
Leading strategic projects as part of the product leadership team for Messenger and Instagram Direct at Meta. I worked on finding solutions to some of our biggest product challenges, particularly those that require cross-org and cross-company coordination.
Interim Pillar Lead, Messenger & Instagram Direct
2023 - 2023
Headed up Messenger's Personal Communication pillar
Head of Product, NPE
2021 - 2023
I headed up incubations and early stage explorations for NPE, Meta's experimental products group.
Meta is a social technology company that enables people to connect, find communities, and grow businesses.
Raised $25,607,817,488.00 from ValueAct Capital.
Founding Partner
2015 - 2021
Founding partner at Betaworks Ventures, a pre-seed and seed stage fund investing. Notable investments include Rec Room, Hugging Face, 8th Wall (acquired by Niantic), Resemble.ai, Bunch, Squad (acquired by Twitter), and Facemoji (acquired by Google).
VP of Strategy
2013 - 2015
I also was the co-founder and director of Alpha, AOL's experimental product group
AOL Lifestream is a web-based application that enables users to keep track of all their comments on social networking sites.
Raised $1,000,000,000.00 from Comcast Ventures and Google.
CEO & Co-Founder
2008 - 2013
CEO & Co-founder of gdgt, a venture-backed social commerce startup focused on consumer electronics. Investors included Spark Capital, True Ventures, betaworks, SV Angel, & Lerer Ventures. Acquired by AOL in February 2013.
CEO & Founder
2007 - 2009
I created and led RCRD LBL an ad-supported online music platform that offered free, curated legal MP3s for download from thousands of emerging and established artists.
Founder
2004 - 2008
The first video game blog.
Joystiq is an online source that features reviews.
Founder & Editor-in-chief
2004 - 2008
Everything.
Founded in 2004, Engadget is one of the internet's original tech blogs.
Founder & Editor-in-Chief
2002 - 2004
Associate Editor
1999 - 2001
Education
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
1993 - 1997
Master of Arts (M.A.)
1997 - 1998