Abdallah Absi
Building Village, the social graph API | Ex-LinkedIn
San Francisco Bay Area
Skills
Education
- LI
Work Experience
2021
Co-Founder, CEO
2021
Building Village (https://village.do), the social graph API. We enable revTech, talent and marketplace platforms to sync their users' networks in 1-line-of-code ― helping them grow revenue and save $Ms in build costs.
2019 - 2021
Product Lead ― Premium & API Products
2019 - 2021
Responsible for growing LinkedIn $XXBn subscription business, and served as LinkedIn's first API product lead.
2019 - 2019
Interim Director, New Data Products
2019 - 2019
Build new data products that help telcos unlock new revenue streams internally (cvm, cross-selling, up-selling, etc), and externally (APIs for fraud prevention, verification services, credit scoring, etc).
2016 - 2018
Co-founder, CEO — Product
2016 - 2018
We help nonprofits predict revenue and improve their financial sustainability by leveraging recurring donations. GivingLoop aims to disrupt the $260bn market of donations made to US non-profits every year. - Signed up 500+ nonprofits for early access in 1 week from beta release - Achieved Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) growth from $0/year to $400k/year within 1 year. - Managed directly sales automation, biz dev, legal compliance, toilet sweeping and what not. http://www.givingloop.org
2012 - 2017
Founder, CEO — Product & Eng.
2012 - 2017
(Acquired by Glob.Ally) Zoomaal is the leading crowdfunding platform of the Middle East. Zoomaal is funded by the top VCs in MENA and was covered on CNN, WSJ, Forbes, and others.
2012 - 2012
Analyst
2012 - 2012
MEVP is the largest VC fund in MENA.
2010 - 2012
Founder, CTO
2010 - 2012
Rifflex is a marketplace for apps that personalize your web surfing experience across major browsers. Apps are hosted on the cloud and are created via a custom built drag-and-drop SDK that allows app builders to manipulate the DOM swiftly and push the change to everyone. The product was sunset-ed after the launch of Google Chrome Webstore with Cloud sign-on / SSO.
2006 - 2010
Explorer, Software Engineer
2006 - 2010
- Started coding at the age of 14 - Built 10s of side hustles in ecommerce, classifieds, browser plugins, q&a sites..etc - Founded the entrepreneurship club in college - Led startup hubs for Startup Weekend and Startup Grind in beirut - Judged at 10s of startup competitions