Shaan Puri
Chairman at The Milk Road
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Chairman
2021 - Current
www.MilkRoad.com the fastest growing newsletter in America for crypto investors.
Ethereum Price offers tools, analysis, and news for understanding the cryptocurrency market.
Senior Director of Product, Mobile Gaming & Emerging Markets
2019 - 2021
Twitch is a social video platform where gamers can broadcast, watch, and talk about video games.
Raised $35,000,000.00 from Thrive Capital, Nelstone Ventures, Take-Two Interactive Software, WestSummit Capital, Alsop Louie Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners.
ceo
2017 - 2019
Acquired by Twitch in 2019. esports tournaments platform.
CEO
2015 - 2017
push a button, broadcast a conversation. awesome product. used by ~4M people, including ESPN, Tony Robbins, and the UFC. ultimately didn't work out (full post mortem here: https://medium.com/@shaanvp/blab-is-dead-long-live-blab-d2f72449ddb8) http://blab.im
CEO
2012 - 2015
a startup studio, founded & funded by the Birch family. this was an absolute dream job. I got to dream up business ideas and had a team of ~20 developers and designers to build them. We built some amazing things. The last venture got acquired. www.monkeyinferno.com
Founder
2010 - 2011
after college, I skipped medschool and started a sushi restaurant with my 2 best friends It was supposed to be the "chipotle of sushi". The company didn't work out, but I had amazing sushi everyday for lunch. So I can't complain.
Sabi is the first ever fast-casual concept to provide fully customizable, restaurant quality.
Education
BS
2006 - 2010