CEO/Founder @ Prosperworks is building the world’s first zero input CRM for Gmail. Finally, salespeople can reclaim countless hours that were spent entering sales data and managers can have the transparency and control they need to grow their business. By integrating with your communication devices and applications, Prosperworks auto-magically identifies and tracks your sales activities. Think of Prosperworks as your virtual wing man. From now on, you’ll never forget to follow up on a lead, lose track of a crucial customer file or know exactly what needs to be done next to take you one step closer to closing the deal. Prosperworks is well funded by notable investors and founded by entrepreneurs that have built products that delight tens of millions of users. From January 2013 to Present (3 years) Board Member @ ClearCare is the world's fastest growing and leading front- and back-office solution for private duty home care agencies that drives greater efficiency, lowers administrative costs and ensures higher quality care. Clearcare is a series B company backed by Bessemer, Qualcomm, Voyager, Harbor Pacific and Cambia. From July 2014 to Present (1 year 6 months) Adviser/Investor @ Dapper. Dapper is an advertising technology platform company that leverages machine learning, intent exploration, sophisticated matching algorithms, and real-time automated optimization to dynamically assemble intent-driven display ads that drive increased relevance and performance. I helped commercialize the service which now drives engagement across millions of impressions delivered through Yahoo's advertising network. Backed by Accel Partners. Sold to Yahoo.
JW Player. First investor in the pioneer of video on the web that now streams billions of videos each month, across phones, tablets, and desktops. The company also powers online publishing, with clients ranging in size from Fortune 500 companies to individual bloggers. In addition the company provides video hosting and streaming, advertising, monetization and analytics. Backed by angels and Greycroft Partners.
Gogobot. For more than 2.5M users, Gogobot makes planning your trip to be almost as fun as the trip itself. The company's enables users to harness the advice of its massive community and surface recommendations from the the people you already trust- your friends. Backed by Redpoint, Battery, Keith Rabois and Oren Zeev. From 2007 to Present (8 years) CEO/Founder @ Twurler was a small mobile app we built with a brilliant and tireless team that gives users a friction-less way to tag emotions on Facebook photos and discover the content you really care about. Sold to strategic buyer. From June 2012 to December 2012 (7 months) Studio General Manager, Chefville @ Conceptualized the game and built a studio of more than 80 tireless creatives and experience builders that brought the delight of creating your very own virtual restaurant on Facebook to more than 50 million online players. Chefville was largest game in the world by daily active players in Q3 of 2012 and the most successful game launch for the company in 2012. From May 2011 to January 2012 (9 months) San Francisco Bay AreaCEO/Founder @ DNA Games solved the hardest problem in the video game industry by building a hits making machine in a traditionally hits driven business. Backed by Battery and Bain Capital Ventures, DNA leveraged its big data optimization platform to "find the fun" and successful grew Casino City, its first title, into the number one casino simulation game on Facebook with more than 20 million players. DNA Games was purchased by Zynga in May 2011. From June 2009 to May 2011 (2 years) Division President @ Backed by more than $200M in growth capital by TA Associates, Oak Investment Partners, Insight Venture Partners, Millennium Technology Ventures and Stripes Group, EMG was a roll up of 22 direct marketing companies, including Vendare, Traffic Marketplace, Epic Advertising, Admodus and New.net. I was Division President in charge of the search business, conversion optimization and advertising sales divisions for this multi hundred million dollar enterprise. From September 2006 to October 2007 (1 year 2 months) CEO and Co-Founder @ Bazaar Advertising was a marketing services platform that applied high frequency trading techniques in the delivery of pay per click ads on Google, Yahoo and MSN to online advertisers. We started out of our apartment in Palo Alto and grew to a high profitable $47M business in less than 2 years. Our tireless team of mostly 15 engineers and scientists created the #1 channel by volume and quality for personal finance, insurance and mobile advertising leads through paid search. Sold to Epic Media Group. From October 2004 to September 2006 (2 years) Head of Business Operations @ Designed the advertiser quality algorithms and business processes to ensure precision pricing for high quality paid search leads for Overture's Content Match product ("the first Adsense"). After its acquisition by Yahoo, I worked with Vish Makhijani to conceive the strategy for the International Search division and executed on a global restructuring involving a multi hundred million dollar revenue business unit. From 2002 to 2005 (3 years) Investment Banking @ Worked on a number of corporate financings and M&A advisory engagements. From 2000 to 2002 (2 years)
BS, Industrial Engineering & Operations Research @ University of California, Berkeley From 1996 to 2000 Jon Lee is skilled in: Google Adwords, Monetization, Start-ups, Mobile Devices, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Distributed Systems, Investor Relations, Ruby, SEM, Strategy, Analytics, Mobile Marketing, Digital Media, CRM, Leadership, Sales Management, Sales, Strategic Planning