Jonathan Wegener
Product obsessed founder, time traveler, subway rider
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
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Min Investment:
$5,000.00Max Investment:
$50,000.00Target Investment:
$25,000.00
Education
- CU
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Work Experience
2025
Founder
2025
📸 🎞️When we founded Timehop over a decade ago, the only available photo data was crude EXIF metadata: timestamps, locations, filenames. That was juuust enough to build a powerfully emotional product and turn Timehop into a daily ritual loved by over 25 million people. But the contents of the photos themselves remained a black box. AI vision models change everything. Given a single photo, AI can now read the hidden context of a photo: the social nuance, the facial expressions, the clothing choices, the body language etc. Given multiple photos, AI can identify hidden patterns, trends, and insights. For the first time ever, the camera roll's chaos is now parsable structured data. ---- I founded Wayback Labs to build at the intersection of AI and camera roll and create powerful new emotional consumer mobile experiences. Hiring a founding iOS engineer, founding designer, and founding backend ML engineers: team@waybacklabs.app
2023
Member
2023
Lots of experiments to figure out what to do next :)
2018 - 2021
Founder
2018 - 2021
Built the first AirPods entertainment company. Raised $3mm from the founders of Oculus, YouTube, HQ Trivia, Tinder, Google Photos, Tumblr, EventBrite, Venmo, GroupMe, MakeSpace and more. Built an amazing tech team (ex-Google/YouTube/Apple/Snapchat) and content team (an Oscar winner-led creative team, a head of content from Nickelodeon, lots of Broadway/Hollywood talent) Created a new class of experiences that leap off the screen and into the real world. However none gained mass adoption or found sustainable growth/retention. We dissolved the company in the end. -- Our products * PartnerPlay.com invented interactive erotica -- delightful, joyful, intimate shared experiences. Split the AirPods with a partner and you'll hear opposite sides of the same story that you roleplay together. * PairPlayApp.com focused on kids aged 6-9 — become characters in a narrative game where your home becomes a rich cinematic universe. We saw huge smiles and great feedback, but saw kids struggling to use AirPods * GoGoGames.com similar to PairPlay, but focused on speakerphone audio (instead of AirPods) and iPad instead of iPhone. * MadeWithLumo.com transforms your iPad into a lightbox you draw on with real pen and paper, bringing beautiful audio stories to life.
2017 - 2017
Product Designer
2017 - 2017
Worked on Evan’s team doing ████████ and ███ with a particular focus on ██████. And don’t forget ███.
2011 - 2017
CEO/Co-Founder
2011 - 2017
Timehop invented "photos from a year ago today" and became a top iPhone app in the United States with over 25 million registered users. Even a decade later, it continues to have millions of daily users and has inspired copycat products at Facebook, Apple, Google Photos etc As CEO/Co-founder, Led fundraising, product, strategy, support, and ops. I raised $14M in funding (Spark Capital, OATV, and Shasta Ventures), built a ~20 person team, and led the company to profitability.
2008 - 2011
Owner
2008 - 2011
Holding company for a bunch of stuff: • My Angel investments (MakeSpace, SudoWrite, Capsule Video, Nas Daily / nas.io, Shef, Pachama, Positive Foods, Calixa, Bloomscape, Rebel Foods India, Rolemance/Embrace/Unreal, SecurityPal,Terrible Merch, The Fund LA, The Fund NYC, Vivvi) • Exit Strategy NYC (2009-present) (www.exitstrategynyc.com) - Created beloved iPhone, Android and Blackberry(!!) apps which received coverage from NYTimes, NY Post, NY Magazine, Wired Magazine, NY1 and others. Selected by Apple as a ‘featured’ iPhone app. • FindTheMohel.com - Designed, coded, and SEO-ed a niche lead generation website that helps parents find Mohels - Mentioned in NY Magazine: http://bit.ly/aqEk4y Consulting: • GroupMe (2010) | product design, analytics. • Loosecubes (2010) | iPhone App wireframes. • AppFund (2009) | product design and strategy. Prioritized feature set to define the minimal viable product and created feature roadmap, Defined functional requirements and designed wireframes and mockups, Connected high-level product vision to tangible product. • DenseBrain (2010) | Produced functional specification document and use cases for a large brand's facebook app. • Drop.io (2008) | managed product launch marketing for site redesign. Managed social-media channels, blogger outreach; wrote press releases and marketing materials. • SkillSlate (2008) | SEO strategy and HTML optimization. • MyMohel.com (2009) | Implemented SEM campaign and call tracking solution. • 2010 Designed websites and created SEM/SEO strategies for several local businesses (dvirsalon.com, lenakoro.com, brooklyndogwalk.net, yourbestcollegeessay.com)
2010 - 2010
Founder, CEO
2010 - 2010
Not really.
2008 - 2008
Business Development Manager
2008 - 2008
Marketing, PR, Business Strategy, and Bizdev for a small tech startup in DUMBO building the first open and transparent online lead generation marketplace. https://techcrunch.com/2013/01/11/pontiflex-funding/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/30/pontiflex-raises-25-million-in-series-a-funding/
2007 - 2008
Management Consultant
2007 - 2008
Digital media strategy for a large US newswire service
2005 - 2006
Laboratory Research Assistant
2005 - 2006
Worked in a biology lab in college performing experiments working on a cure for addiction: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPcap/2000-02/07/007r-020700-idx.html