Wayne Pan
Founder of Accord
Wayne Pan
Founder of Accord
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Founder & CTO
2020 - Current
Advisor
2022
Growth Advisor
2020
VP of Product and Engineering
2018 - 2020
Fast Track Mentor
2019
Investor
2012
I invest in founders first and products second. Investments include: Apptimize (acquired by Airship), Charge Communications, Everwise (acquired by Torch.io), Excipient, Jetlore (acquired by PayPal), Okava, Postmates (acquired by Uber), and lately various through Hyphen Capital
Advisor
2019 - 2022
Founder
2018 - 2018
Treasure connects you with local financial experts to help you make better decisions. We partner with local firms and instantly connect users with the right expert.
Director of Engineering
2015 - 2018
Head of engineering for Connected Enterprise initiatives. We help all employees be more productive and successful by leveraging the Economic Graph. Founded LinkedIn Elevate from idea to $xx revenue. Elevate helps companies empower their employees to share content and increase their social presence. LinkedIn Lookup, solving "who works on what" to help everybody work smarter.
Manager - Software Engineer
2013 - 2015
Talent Solutions - Recruiter - Eng manager responsible for $600m run rate business line. - Built iOS and Android Recruiter apps - Redesigned Recruiter profile to lift engagement by xx%
Founder
2012 - 2013
Launched from Churn Labs incubator. Raised from Sequoia Cap - Use your social networks to help make daily decisions - Match interests of first and second degree connections with questions you create - Product and Engineering - Built world class mobile team
Churner
2011 - 2012
Mobile Incubator - Digital loyalty platform using embedded iOS devices at merchants with the ability to share rewards socially. Pilot launch to 1,000 users and 10 merchants - Smart address book that combined contacts in mobile phone and social media updates - Incubated Maybe
Education
Investments
Latest Articles
How to Build a Product Focused Engineering Organization
Talks about Product, Engineering and Leadership
The Most Important Factor For Referral Programs
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Siri: Apple is Failing
Talks about Siri functionality, Apple's voice technology and iOS limitations
Getting Out of the Trough of Sorrow
Talks about Trough of Sorrow, Paul Graham's startup curve and product iteration