Ash Rust
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San Francisco, California
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$150,000.00Max Investment:
$150,000.00Target Investment:
$150,000.00
Skills
Education
- YC
- Uo
- DU
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Work Experience
2017
Managing Partner
2017
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2016 - 2019
Advisor
2016 - 2019
2016 - 2017
EIR
2016 - 2017
2011 - 2016
Cofounder & CEO
2011 - 2016
Acquired by Cameo. YC W12. Business Messaging Solutions. Venture backed business messaging startup. The business grew to multi-million dollar revenue with customers such as: Lyft, Wag, Berkshire Hathaway, Booz Allen Hamilton, Yale and Teach for America; before being acquired by Cameo Global in 2015.
2010 - 2011
Product, Director of Ranking
2010 - 2011
Led development of Scoring, Influence Graph and Topics. Scaled scoring and graph algorithms from a few million scores to hundreds of millions.
2009 - 2010
Lead Relevance Engineer
2009 - 2010
Led relevance team. Projects: crowdsourced data collection, ML based relevance training & A/B testing.
2008 - 2009
Engineer
2008 - 2009
Linguistic engineering: efficient solutions for language problems, query meaning and data extraction from free text.
2003 - 2008
Founder & Managing Director
2003 - 2008
Led the development of training software, websites, intranets, SEO and internal search solutions.
2001 - 2002
2nd Lieutenant, Troop Commander
2001 - 2002
Commanded 36 soldiers in a Logistics Troop, based in North West Germany.