RG

Ravi Grover

Investor at Startups

Seattle, Washington

Overview

Work Experience

  • General Partner

    2021 - Current

    Backing great founders in data tech!

  • Angel Investor

    2015

    Portfolio: angel.co/grover

  • Mentor

    2019

    Mentoring great startups in the Seattle area.

  • Solutions Architect

    2020 - 2021

    Unblocked issues across the organization as a generalist.

  • Product Engineer

    2019 - 2020

    Built a best-in-class Commuter Benefits product while exploring the potential to open a new Seattle office.

  • Growth Data Consultant

    2018 - 2019

    Put proper data tracking processes in place for product, data, and engineering to have accurate, actionable growth data. Enabled successful pivot. Acquired by Nike.

  • Product Engineer

    2018 - 2019

    Built and released a new optimized Poppy (childcare provider) request flow before the company unfortunately was shut down. Poppy was a consumer software company vetting the best childcare caregivers in every community. (YC W16). React, JavaScript, Ruby, Rails

  • CTO

    2015 - 2018

    We built a team-hiring platform. Turned into more of an agency, and made the difficult decision to shut down and move on.

  • Advisor

    2011 - 2015

    Used what I learned building FB's first data tools to advise Chart.io. Acquired by Atlassian.

  • Data Scientist, Growth Engineer, Partner Engineer

    2007 - 2015

    Built the internal data platform “Argus” that informed FB’s growth early on and to this day. Worked cross-functionally and with partners to ensure quality releases of a variety of platform products at annual f8 conferences. Routinely fixed difficult bugs across the FB ecosystem including in news feed, ads, events, etc, often involving time zone issues, internal vs. platform interaction, or UI/UX. Projects included: User Growth (new user experience optimization, e.g. add-a-friend dialog instead of a page, disabled ads for new users --> better long-term user retention and revenue) FB Japan Growth: on-site in Tokyo, found millions of users in the seat cushions, basically :) Social Plugins (e.g. improvements to Like button, Comments plugin) Groups - initial launch Graph API - initial launch Internal Analytics Tools (still used widely!) External Analytics Tools (FB Insights, Analytics for Apps) Partner Engineering (worked with Spotify, Ford, Microsoft, etc.)

Education

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