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Jim Payne

Entrepreneur and Investor.

Aspen, Colorado

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $250,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $2,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,125,000.00

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2019

    Breakpoint Capital is a seed stage investment platform, partnering with entrepreneurs at the earliest stages of venture formation.

  • Founder, CEO and Chairman

    2016 - 2018

    Platform to enable header bidding for in-app mobile advertising. Acquired by AppLovin (APP) in 2018.

2013 - 2015

  • VP Exchange

    2013 - 2015

    Completed the commercial integration of MoPub into Twitter's advertising business post acquisition.

2010 - 2013

  • Founder and CEO

    2010 - 2013

    MoPub is the largest ad server and RTB exchange for mobile advertising. I founded MoPub to offer a world-class monetization platform for mobile apps. As CEO, I grew the company to 120 employees across three offices, and $100mm annual revenue in 2013. MoPub was financed by Accel and Harrison Metal. MoPub was acquired by Twitter in October 2013 for $700mm (Post IPO value).

2009 - 2010

  • Sr. Product Manager

    2009 - 2010

    Led ads products with a focus on performance advertisers. Designed and shipped cross-platform conversion tracking initiatives as well as behavioral and geo-locational targeting features.

2006 - 2009

  • Product Manager

    2006 - 2009

    Managed Maps/Local syndication products: doubled license fee revenue in 2008, launched local ads syndication to Maps API publisher sites. Moved to the consumer properties team and managed monetization across products including Finance and News. As a 20% project, launched Google Flu Trends through google.org. Launched and ran Google Real Time Search, which indexed Twitter and other updates and provides them as part of search results.