Co-founder + CEO at Taika

⚡️Currently working on making cheat codes for everyday life.⚡️ I'm an entrepreneur, angel investor and product nerd who has spent the last few years crisscrossing the planet in search of great coffee and adventure. I've been lucky enough to invest in a handful of great companies and am always looking for more. In previous lives, I was the first mobile product hire and 7th product manager hired at Facebook. I led teams building many early mobile products including iOS, Android, mobile web, SMS and others. Some of my favorite moments were building and launching the very first version of Facebook Places, the brand new FBiOS app in 2012, the first version of native mobile ads & leading the Pages product group through a hugely successful evolution of product & strategy. By the numbers: * Helped grow mobile at Facebook from ~10M MAUs to over 1B DAUs. * Grew active Pages from 20M to over 50M * Grew Pages annual revenue from ~$600M to over $3.5B Before that, I was co-founder and CTO at one of the earliest social location companies (Socialight) and an Adjunct Professor at NYU, teaching classes in mobile applications and location product design. Right before I hopped over a few ponds and continents to the US - I was a freelance writer, occasional photographer and brand strategist in South Africa.