Co-Founder @Digits & Angel Investor.
Boston, Massachusetts
Napster
Administrator
August 1999 to September 2000
Chasing Coral
Associate Producer
Director of Product Strategy
November 2015 to February 2017
Director of Product Marketing
December 2014 to November 2015
Global Head of Developer Experience
April 2014 to December 2014
General Manager, Crashlytics
January 2013 to April 2014
Crashlytics
Co-Founder / Chairman
February 2011 to January 2017
Cambridge, MA
Wayne Chang
Hacker (Personal projects)
1996 to 2002
Scene Review News Network
Founder
February 1998 to August 2000
Digits
Co-Founder, Co-CEO
Wayne Chang
Angel Investor (80+ startups)
What company does Wayne Chang work for?
Wayne Chang works for Napster
What is Wayne Chang's role at Napster?
Wayne Chang is Administrator
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Wayne Chang works in the Internet industry.
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Wayne Chang's colleagues are Jo Pu, and Rachel Swanson
📖 Summary
Administrator @ Napster At the time, created the largest online forum community. From August 1999 to September 2000 (1 year 2 months) Associate Producer @ Chasing Coral Acquired by Netflix.100% Rotten TomatoesEmmy Award Winner 2018, Audience Choice Award, Sundance 2017Shortlisted for the 2018 Academy Award for Best DocumentaryCoral reefs around the world are vanishing at an unprecedented rate. A team of divers, photographers, and scientists made it their mission to discover why and to bring stunning imagery of this undersea drama to the big screen. Chasing Coral is a landmark documentary that follows the team's progress and setbacks, and reveals, for the first time, what is really happening to the world's precious reef ecosystems. Director of Product Strategy @ Twitter After several years on the developer products front, our mobile platform could not be healthier. Crashlytics; the company I co-founded is now part of Twitter. In terms of usage and distribution, it is now #1 in mobile performance. Answers, our analytics solution was just recently ranked #1 most widely used for mobile analytics. Also, our mobile platform Fabric is healthy and growing. I'm proud that we are virtually on all active Android and iOS devices impacting over a billion people daily. In 2017, Google acquired Fabric, including the flagship Crashlytics. From November 2015 to February 2017 (1 year 4 months) Director of Product Marketing @ Twitter Lead the product marketing and growth efforts for our Developer platform. This included the positioning and build out of our sites (fabric.io, answers.io, crashlytics.com, digits.com), all product and feature announcements, and leading our growth strategies within the products themselves. From December 2014 to November 2015 (1 year) Global Head of Developer Experience @ Twitter I oversaw all of product -- including design and user experience -- as it relates to Developers and our non-consumer Products. This includes digital experiences via our websites (dev.twitter.com, fabric.io, crashlytics.com, twitterflight.com), product experience across our services and tools (Fabric, Crashlytics, MoPub, Gnip, etc), as well as physical experiences for our live events (Twitter's Flight conference, Apple's WWDC conference, Google's I/O conference, etc). From April 2014 to December 2014 (9 months) General Manager, Crashlytics @ Twitter After the acquisition of Crashlytics by Twitter, I oversaw the product and launch of two additional product lines, Beta by Crashlytics and Answers by Crashlytics. From January 2013 to April 2014 (1 year 4 months) Co-Founder / Chairman @ Crashlytics ACQUIRED: In 2012, Twitter acquired Crashlytics for 9 figures - its largest acquisition to date.ACQUIRED: In 2017, Google acquired Crashlytics from Twitter.I co-founded Crashlytics with Jeff Seibert. From day zero and through the day of acquisition, and beyond, I focused on the product, design, growth, and product marketing. From February 2011 to January 2017 (6 years) Cambridge, MAHacker (Personal projects) @ Wayne Chang LanCraft - Utility downloaded hundreds of thousands of times that lets Warcraft 3 players online using the LAN feature and bypassing Battle.NET. Written in 2002.Instant Profiler - First AIM dynamic profile service. Written in 2001.Q30wnerz - Proof of concept software that showed severe vulnerabilities in Quake 3. Affected all games based on the engine. Worked with Id Software to patch it. Written in 2001. http://wayne.to/eVh2m6NapsterHelp Protocol - Written in March of 2001, during the aftermath of filename filtering. http://wayne.to/eldKa6Gibbed.net - Online gaming news network. Also created a special plug-in for Rocket Arena 3 featuring team radar, team variable system, and timers. Year 2000.Tribes 2 - Linux testing team for this ahead-of-its-time and still extremely fun game. Has since been released for free. If you look closely in the credits, you'll find my name and call sign: Wayne "ttol" Chang. 2000. http://wayne.to/hMh6iPQ.U.B.E. - Quake Universal BSP Editor was the first map editor for the Quake 3 engine. Written in 1999.IRC Operator - irc.colorado.edu, was the oldest server on the largest IRC network, EFNet. IRC was the breeding ground for all the old school hackers "back in the day". 1996-2001.Nestea2 - Proof of concept software that demonstrated a severe vulnerability in Windows, Linux, BSD, Palm devices, Cisco routers, Printers, etc. Written in 1998. http://wayne.to/elC3AJ Reality Check Network - Worked with the team in the popular electronic magazine. 1996-1997.TetriNET - Helped launch and build this great community in 1997. Helped with TetriNET 2, a centralized version, subsequently. From 1996 to 2002 (6 years) Founder @ Scene Review News Network ACQUIRED.Ranked 367 in the world by Alexa (gap.com 404, craigslist.org 414, walmart 538, nike.com 754, fedex.com 886). From February 1998 to August 2000 (2 years 7 months) Co-Founder, Co-CEO @ Digits https://digits.comThe most powerful financial engine for modern businesses. Angel Investor (80+ startups) @ Wayne Chang https://chang.comAngel investor in 80+ startups including Desktop Metal, Opendoor, Lovepop, Gusto, Planet Labs, SoFi, and many more. Also an LP in several funds including Benchmark Capital, Baseline Ventures, First Round Capital, Soma Capital, 137 Ventures, Boston Seed Capital, and others. Full list at https://chang.com
Extraversion (E), Intuition (N), Feeling (F), Judging (J)
2 year(s), 6 month(s)
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