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Ramsey Chapin

Founder of Effortless

Miami, Florida

Overview

Work Experience

  • Founding Partner

    2017 - Current

    Jars Capital partners with founders to build and scale software companies with a unique distribution advantage. We build companies primarily within our multifamily platform, but support others with a focus on capital efficiency.

  • Co-founder, CEO Effortless Ads

    2021

    Incubated within Jars Capital. When marketing your property, make it Effortless. The Effortless AI algorithm in the background is designed to maximize traffic on minimal spend.

  • Founder, CEO

    2016 - 2021

    Incubated within Jars Capital. Engage in 1:1 conversations with your residents and prospects from any device at any time, anywhere.

  • Early Stage Startups

    2013 - 2016

    Worked with companies at the earliest stages, including Fitbit, Ring, Peloton, Hashicorp, Blue Bottle Coffee, Duo Security, Evident.io, Tray.io, and others.

  • Marketing Analyst

    2012 - 2013

    -First marketing intern. Reported directly to Co-founder/CMO Gretchen Curtis. -1 of 4 that created launch plan, messaging, and oversaw implementation of launch plan for new product Airframe. Also created financial modeling for Airframe for use by CEO Joshua McKenty. -1 of 6 employees responsible for interfacing with customers every day of 30,000 attendee VMWorld 2012. Piston Cloud won 1st place for private cloud computing technologies. -1 of 2 in charge of lead generation, lead nurturing, and lead traffic for all of Piston Cloud’s products via Google Adwords and Marketo. Responsible for growth of lead traffic by 552% and lead conversions by 360%.

  • TEC Fellow - Class of 2012

    2012 - 2012

    1 of 11 chosen for immersion program by True Ventures, an early-stage $600 million venture capital firm. -Conceived and presented new product ideas for Piston Cloud, including one implemented soon after presentation, to 20 CEO’s of True-backed companies, and True partners. -Analyzed and presented key competitive strategy document on Hadoop to True partners.

  • Community Manager and QA Intern

    2011 - 2011

    Third intern hired in 8-person VC-backed startup that grew from 1 to 20 million users during 2011 to 2012. Acquired by LinkedIn for $90 million in April 2013. -Personally conducted, and analyzed Pulse’s first ever focus groups (four in total). -Developed and implemented weekly feedback log that turned 1750 weekly customer feedback messages into actionable list of 40 popular product improvements. 20% resulted in future app features. Response time decreased by 50%. 3 critical software fixes were made. -Worked directly with head of biz dev to grow Twitter base from 50,000 to 110,000 in 8 months. -Aggregated bugs (often 10 or more) discovered in stress tests into an actionable pre-release list.

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