Robyn Reiss
Investor at f7 Ventures
Palo Alto, California
Overview
Work Experience
Stanford University - Ethics of Technology
2021 - Current
Led an effort with three professors (Mehran Sahami, Rob Reich, and Jeremy Weinstein) to determine what the work of Computer Science 182 (Ethics, Public Policy, and Technological Change) and a new book, System Error, could be converted to in terms of initiatives. Formulated a new set of university fellowships to drive impact in the tech sector, as well as tightly coordinated work with VCs and a concept of a free university for learning the ethics of technology.
Investor
2018
Facebook women alumnae angel investing in a portfolio of >50% women and underrepresented founders.
f7 Ventures is a Venture Capital.
Technology Consultant
2021 - 2021
Brought in to help infuse technology into Santa Clara County's vaccine rollout.
Co Lead
2020 - 2020
Built and co-led 40 person tech support team for the volunteers powering the National Democratic Voter Protection Hotline (iwillvote.com). Worked 15 hour days, 7 days a week for 6 weeks to solve vote-blocking issues for 300,000 voters.
Operations for Engineering
2017 - 2018
Drove initiatives for the engineering team at CZI.
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative supports community-driven solutions to accelerate progress in science, education, and justice.
Product Development
2013 - 2016
(1) Product Manager for GreatNonprofits, (2) iOS engineer for ReSearch, and (3) explored startups
Head of Internal Communications and Head of Platform Policy and Operations
2008 - 2014
Was the sole internal communications person leading Facebook through the IPO in 2012. For three years, every Friday moderated Mark's Q&A with employees and made sure he got hard questions asked. Before that, managed platform policy and operations (enforcement and support operations for small to medium developers).
Stay N' Alive Productions, LLC is a social media marketing firm that provides clients with measurable profits.
Lecturer, Computer Science Department
2006 - 2011
I was the lecturer for Computer Science 154, Automata and Complexity Theory for five summer quarters while working full-time at Google and Facebook.
Senior Manager, Advertising & Technical Operations
2006 - 2008
I built and managed technical teams servicing Google's mid-to-long tail of advertisers. These included the AdWords escalation technical support team, and the Google Analytics support team.
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Chief Operations Officer
2003 - 2006
Second hire and founding COO of the successful start-up school Summit Preparatory High School, now expanded to the charter network Summit Public Schools. Summit uses Personalized Learning to empower all kids to learn in their own style and at their own pace. We started with the same demographic as the local Sequoia district (most kids first generation-college), and instead of their 40% college-readiness rate, prepared 96% of kids for four-year college.
Summit Public Schools is the first Charter Management Organization (CMO) based in Silicon Valley.