Laura Thompson

Product Marketing Lead, Future AI/AR Devices

2024

Reality Labs is Meta's futuristic innovation lab. Our mission is to build the future of human connection by developing and scaling the next transformative computing platform....starting with Ray Ban Metas, our AI glasses.

Advisor, Product Marketing & Go-To-Market

2023 - 2024

Google X's mission is to invent and launch moonshot technologies that make the world a radically better place. I originally joined in 2013, as one of the earliest hires, where I partnered with technical leaders to lead “all things non-technical" and helped launch world-changing companies including Wing (a delivery drone service, now a $1B+ company) and a smart contact lens for diabetics (licensed to Novartis). I also worked with our Rapid Eval team to evaluate and kill many, many projects (an important part of innovation!). I curated the lessons we were learning about 10x innovation in real-time and have delivered 100+ speeches and workshops across the US, Europe, India, and Singapore to help executives and leaders think radically differently about how to launch new products, companies, and movements.

Founder, Execs on Deck

2022 - 2024

Execs on Deck is a competitive global fellowship for top founders and tech executives across the globe. Our fellows include executives from big tech (Google, Facebook, Apple, Uber, and Tesla), leaders at world changing VC-backed startups, and successful serial entrepreneurs. "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together" - African proverb Previously: Fellow, On Deck Founders (ODF1, 2019)

Advisor, Interim COO

2018 - 2021

Wayfinder is an edtech startup born at Stanford's Design School on track to help 100k students in 15+ countries build lives of purpose, meaning + belonging.

Investor

2016 - 2017

Lead, Product Marketing & Go-To-Market

2013 - 2016

Product Marketing Manager

2010 - 2013

Led the global launch of offline retail, now replicated in thousands of stores around the world. Launched the largest Google UK marketing campaign to date to support the launch, an $XXM cross-platform media strategy that delivered a 400%+ QoQ sales increase.

Associate Product Marketing Manager

2009 - 2010

Drove $45m in revenue over 12 months, managed the team’s $25m budget, and negotiated the channel’s largest partnership to date, helping 1.8 million small businesses grow.

Co-Founder

2007 - 2009

RUNA produces clean energy drinks made from a leaf, not a lab. It is brewed with fair-trade, organic certified guayusa leaves, a highly caffeinated Amazonian leaf. RUNA built the first commercial supply chain for guayusa and has improved livelihoods for thousands of indigenous Kichwa families in the Ecuadorian Amazon while generating millions of dollars of direct income. RUNA was acquired by All Market Inc, parent company of VitaCoco, in 2018.

Summer Fellow

2008 - 2008

Executed a strategic project for a Boston non-profit under the guidance of New Sector Alliance, a non-profit consulting firm developed in partnership with Boston Consulting Group.