Ryan Tabone
Alchemist, Advisor, Investor, occasional Executive | Google, Alphabet, Lightspeed
New York, New York
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2022
Advisor
2022
2022
Advisor
2022
2024
Founder
2024
Board & Advisory through referral only.
2016
Founder & Investor
2016
Investor & advisor to startups in a variety of industries For a partial list of tech investments, see https://angel.co/ryant
2022 - 2024
Co-Founder & Advisor
2022 - 2024
Co-Founder & CEO
2022 - 2022
Happiness comes from working with who you love. Saw a need to connect groups of people who wanted to work together with companies eager to get teams of people ... and filled it (or tried to)!
2022 - 2024
Chief Product & Technology Officer
2022 - 2024
Simplifying what it takes to run a merchant business. Some highlights: - Successfully integrated 9 companies into a 1,000-person “product & technology” organization comprising product, engineering, design, data science, and program management - Spearheaded company’s first 5 year vision & 3 year strategy, fostered an engineering culture of continuous experimentation & fortnightly development cycles, instituted user-centered design - Shipped multiple AI-backed features within a month during the LLM boom - Automated payments & capital infrastructure, boosting finance-based revenue from <15% to >60% of total revenue within one year, enabling a shift from SaaS to a financial services business model - Elevated organizational stability and security practices to best-in-class standards
2021 - 2022
Executive In Residence & Advisor
2021 - 2022
Drop-in Executive & Advisor, operating across Alphabet, focused on the Other Bets, X, and GV companies
2007 - 2021
General Manager & Vice President, Google Pay & Google Finance
2018 - 2021
Founded the Finance product layer for Google with the goal of making finance simple, helpful, & accessible for all
Technical Assistant to the CEO
2018 - 2018
Vice President, G Suite
2013 - 2018
Brought enterprise focus, shift to mobile, & Google's first consumer AI features
Co-Founder & Group Product Manager, Chrome OS & Chromebooks
2008 - 2013
Responsible for Google's first consumer hardware products, from CR-48 through the industry’s first mainstream ARM-based laptop
Co-Founder & Product Lead, Quick Search Box
2008 - 2009
From idea to mass adoption in under a year Integrated QSB into Chrome, Android, & Search
Product Lead, Google Desktop
2007 - 2009
2005 - 2007
Associate Consultant
2005 - 2007
Consulted in consumer packaged goods, healthcare, real estate, technology, private equity Specialized in process optimizations, growth/investment strategies, int'l expansions, market predictions
2002 - 2002
Optoelectronic Engineer
2002 - 2002
Optimized laser system for Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS) satellite