PR

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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Founder & Editor-in-chief

    2004 - 2008

    Everything.

  • Founder & Editor-in-Chief

    2002 - 2004

  • Associate Editor

    1999 - 2001

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