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Shane Mac

Founder of Ephemera

Nashville, Tennessee

Overview

Work Experience

  • Co-founder & CEO

    2021 - Current

    Ephemera helps build private and decentralized messaging. We help grow the XMTP ecosystem. The mission of XMTP is to build an open and secure messaging protocol that lasts forever. https://EphemeraHQ.com

  • Chairman & Co-Founder

    2016

    A platform that connects military spouses to be your trusted assistants. We help CEOs, VCs, executives, and startup teams get their time back.

  • Chairman

    2016

    Manuscripts is a publishing company for the modern author.

  • Founder

    2008

    A podcast with a simple idea. Let's ask questions most people don't.

  • Senior Vice President

    2019 - 2021

    Joined Conversocial after the acquisition of Assist where I was the CEO & Co-Founder for 7 years. We were acquired for $50m cash by Verint $VRNT.

  • CEO and Co-Founder

    2014 - 2019

    Built the first bots & AI to power messaging and voice platforms. Powering T-Mobile, Sephora, Fandango, Lonely Planet, Hyatt, 1-800-FLOWERS, and more. We work with Facebook Messenger, Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Whatsapp, Twitter Business Messaging, and Apple Business Chat. Assist merged with Conversocial in March, 2019 and was then acquired by $VRNT Verint for $50m cash. http://conversocial.com/assist

  • Product

    2011 - 2014

    Discover and hire the right service expert.

  • Director of Product and Marketing

    2011 - 2011

    I worked post Gist acquisition.

  • Product and Marketing

    2009 - 2011

    Sold to BlackBerry for ~$45m with a team less than 15 people. We created the smart address book that today is called a "Social CRM" and grew it to over 100m people in 2 years.

  • Local Digital Ad Products

    2008 - 2009

    Lead a local ad product at Cobalt Group which resulted in 100M+ revenue and helped Cobalt sell to ADP for 400+ million.

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