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Co-Founder & CEO

Instana

Growth Marketing Lead

intermix.io

The first hire at intermix. We were acquired by Xenon Partners in a private equity transaction in March 2020.

I went from an intern to building our marketing and sales playbooks along with our co-founder. We also built the largest Amazon Redshift engineering community in the world.

Some of the fastest-growing companies like Plaid, Postmates and InVision used our software.
- ThredUp is the world's largest online consingment store (before e.g. Poshmark)
- Udemy is the world's largest online learning platform
- Remind is the #1 educational app in the US; in fact, they were even the overall #1 app in the appstore in late August
- WeWork is the world's #1 real estate operator and co-working space provider
- InVision has overtaken Adobe and is the #1 design and prototyping app
- Postmates is the #1 on-demand delivery company

Head of Growth

Buzz App

Buzz had over 200 000 active users in 4 different countries. This is by far the most widely spread app from this region. 

Our growth consisted of extreme guerilla marketing and a lot of content on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube.

We managed to engage more than 500 000 people in all those channels combined with less than $100 spent on advertising.

We won 3rd place for app of the year in 2016.

CEO & Head of Growth

NewMan's Business Accelerator

Android Mentor

JavaScript Mentor

Software Design and Architecture Mentor

Red Cross Youth

President

Nikola Sokolov

Uscreen

Report to the CEO.  Bootstrapped vertical SaaS & payments.  Memberships for video creators & YouTubers.

COO/CRO

Brex

Reported to the CRO.  Business banking, corporate card, expense management software, and bill pay software.

From $20 to $100M+ in annual revenue (~18 months).
Partners:  NetSuite, Quickbooks, Xero, TriNet, Shopify, Magento, and BigCommerce.
Channel:  Agencies, accountants, VARs, and system integrators (SIs and GSIs).

Partnerships & Sales

BlueVine

Reported to the CEO.  Business banking, working capital, and payments.

From $15 to $150M+ in annual revenue.
Team of ~30 people and 2,500+ partners responsible for ~60% of total revenue.
Channel: Brokers, bankers, VC, lower middle-market ecosystem (PE, lenders, i-bank)

Technology Crossover Ventures

Invested ~$400M across software, marketplace, media, ecommerce, and gaming businesses.

Sourced, evaluated, and executed equity investments with a check size between $50M - $250M.

Growth Equity

Electronic Arts

Supported two CEOs (John Riccitiello and Andrew Wilson), CFO (Blake Jorgenson), and President (Frank Gibeau) with M&A and strategy analysis.

Mobile gaming, esports, PC & console, free-to-play gambling, sports & brand licensing,

Corp Dev

Lazard

Broad industry experience with exposure to consumer, media & entertainment, retail, technology, and industrial

Investment Banking (M&A and restructuring)

I am the COO at Uscreen - pronounced [yoo-skreen].  We're on a mission to generate $1+ Billion of annual earnings for creators by 2025.

Uscreen is a growing (and profitable) bootstrapped SaaS business revolutionizing the way that video creators & YouTubers monetize their content.  

Prior to Uscreen, I helped two tech startups (Bluevine & Brex) grow from ~$20m to $150m+ of annual revenue.  Before that, I invested growth equity in pre-IPO tech scale-ups -- typically $50m to $250m at a time.  And supported the executive team at Electronic Arts with M&A and strategy.

taplio

The Battle

Nikola Sokolov

Matt Estes

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