Ryan Merket

I am a passionate husband, father, entrepreneur, angel investor, and mentor to many founders. I've had a lifelong love of tech. I first learned how to program at 11, developed my first website at 12, reverse-engineered my first binary at 15, and started my first internet business at the age of 16. I'm currently taking a break and recharging before I take on what's next. If you're looking to collaborate, partner, or need advisory help, feel free to connect with me here and tell me a little bit about the context of the request. I'm now in Austin, TX where I've been since 2017, after 10 years in the San Francisco Bay Area. Before moving back to Texas, I was a Product Manager for Reddit, where I owned all ads products, including desktop ads, mobile ads, self-serve ad flow, and our ad server. I enjoyed my time at Reddit and learned a lot about consumer behavior and managing large communities. Before Reddit, I was the CEO and co-founder of Appstores, which was acquired by mobile ad giant InMobi. Appstores later became the foundation for InMobi's Native Ads product before I left in 2014. I co-founded Appstores after leaving Facebook, where I was an early employee and part of the Platform team. While at Facebook, I helped major platform partners like Disney, Hulu, and Spotify effectively leverage the Facebook Platform. Before Facebook, I co-founded Ping.fm (acquired by Seesmic), a service that allows users to post across multiple social networks at once. I moved to the Bay Area in 2007 to join Dotspotter (acquired by CBS Interactive) in San Francisco as a Senior Product Designer, where I launched the very first implementation of Facebook Connect and numerous social applications for various CBS Interactive properties. I can cross the divide between Product and Engineering, which gives me a unique perspective that allows me to be a massive asset to the companies I work for, advise, and invest in.