Benjamin Somers

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States8 yrs 7 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • Raised $5.5 million for innovative education platform.
  • Scaled ARR from $50k to $5 million in under a year.
  • Developed advanced sensor technology for energy efficiency.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in EdTech and Energy Tech with a strong focus on product management and entrepreneurship.

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Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipEntrepreneurshipProduct ManagementGrowth ManagementMachine Learning

Other Skills

Chinese CultureClient Relationship ManagementCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)Data AnalyticsDevice OperationsEnergy EfficiencyManagementMetrics AnalysisMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft OfficePublic SpeakingPythonR Statistical SoftwareResearchSQL

About

Standing on shoulders. I like working with curious people. Twitter > Linkedin, dm me here to chat: https://twitter.com/ben_m_somers

Experience

Recess.gg

CEO

Jan 2024Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

  • We've raised $5.5m to build a new education system, starting with homeschoolers. We're the fastest-growing platform for homeschoolers to make friends, excel academically, and build cool sh*t.
  • Grateful to be backed by some incredible investors including Bling Capital, Bloomberg Beta, Steven Chen (cofounder of YouTube), Balaji Srinivasan, and many more amazing people!
LeadershipEntrepreneurshipCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)

Synthesis

2 roles

Product Manager

Promoted

Sep 2021Dec 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Synthesis is a spin-out from the Ad Astra School at SpaceX. We took the best class from that school, built software around it, and scaled it on the internet.
  • I was responsible for the core infrastructure. Thousands of kids from around the world joined our platform every day; our team built an integrated video-chat + game platform that worked on any device (low-end Chromebooks). We also built tools downstream of video, e.g. reflection and review tools.
Product ManagementSoftware DevelopmentVideo Chat Technology

Head of Growth

Nov 2020Aug 2021 · 9 mos

  • ~$50k ARR -> $5m ARR in less than a year
Growth Management

Carbic

Chief of Staff

Jun 2018Jan 2021 · 2 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Carbic(YCS16) helps to identify leaks in Oil pipelines, track hazardous wastewater, and provide insight into remote sites. We built a new type of sensor that could measure fluids through pipe walls. It pumps ultrasonic waves through the pipe and records the reverberations, and then utilizes a variety of ML techniques to translate that into fluid properties.
  • I focused on device operations, US GTM, & internal metrics. It was also an easy place to stay close to my interest in ML/Statistics.
Machine LearningDevice OperationsMetrics Analysis

Gibbs energy, llc

Co-Founder

Jun 2016Jun 2018 · 2 yrs · Greater Chicago Area

  • We provide energy efficiency technology to commercial spaces at no upfront cost, and collect a portion of the savings over the next few years. We modeled our pricing strategy based on Solar-City's performance engineering. I manage our contractors, our sales team, and our client relationships.
Energy EfficiencySales ManagementClient Relationship ManagementEntrepreneurship

Education

Northwestern University

Bachelor’s Degree — Statistics and Chinese

Jan 2016Jan 2019

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Bachelor’s Degree — International/Global Studies

Jan 2015Jan 2016

SYA Beijing China

High School — Chinese Language and Literature

Jan 2014Jan 2015

New Trier Highschool

High School

Jan 2011Jan 2014

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