9Mile Labs | Icebreaker

9Mile Labs | Icebreaker

Members

Jeremy Zaretzky

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During my career, I have been an entrepreneur, mentored hundreds of other founders, run a startup accelerator, helped grow a global VC fund, and taught at a major university. I am currently an Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of Washington Information School, where I primarily teach entrepreneurship, product/project management, and software development. I also lead the iSchool's undergraduate Capstone program and serve as a faculty advisor for the DubHacks Next startup incubator. I am skilled at developing curriculum and running a classroom in both on-campus and online modalities, and have been nominated for the UW Distinguished Teaching Awards during each of the past six academic years. At the iSchool, I am also Co-Director of the iStartup Lab, which helps UW iSchool students develop entrepreneurial skills and launch data-driven social impact startups. As a Venture Partner at Loyal VC, I serve as the lead partner for 10+ portfolio companies and review follow-on opportunities as a member of the fund's investment committee. And as co-founder at WireSpring, I raised outside capital; launched new products; ran organic and paid customer acquisition; built and managed strategic relationships with customers, vendors, and channel partners; negotiated complex contracts; hired and managed teams; and managed the sale of the business to another privately-held software company.

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I'm a transformational AI-proficient leader who has helped drive significant growth, leading to 4 successful exits at startups and mid-size companies. I bring a principles-based, AI-forward, framework-centric approach to scale marketing execution. I'm a T-shaped marketer with depth in product marketing and multiple stints leading customer marketing, demand generation and partner marketing. I've delivered results in a broad range of industries including fintech, healthcare, databases, IT infrastructure, legal tech and productivity software.

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Entrepreneur, researcher and consultant with over a decade of experience validating, launching, and growing technology startups. Areas of expertise are business strategy, market research, project and product management, storytelling, go-to-market strategy.