Lou Mintzer 🦅

CEO

Charlottesville, Virginia, United States23 yrs 10 mos experience
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Key Highlights

  • Led Homesnap to a $250M acquisition.
  • Expert in personalized email and SMS marketing.
  • Venture partner supporting innovative startups.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a MarTech expert with a strong focus on SaaS and product development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Email MarketingMarketing StrategyStrategic GuidanceEnvironmental AwarenessVenture CapitalEntrepreneurshipProduct DevelopmentReal EstateSoftware DevelopmentTeam Leadership

Other Skills

Customer ExperienceTeamworkFinanceInformation TechnologyLeadershipMobile CommerceSocial Media MarketingComputer EngineeringKlaviyoProduct MarketingOnline MarketingGoogle AdsNetworkingShopify PlusGraphics

About

“Email marketing is dead.” That’s what they say. But if your emails aren’t making money, it’s not because email is dead... its because they’re boring. I’m Lou Mintzer, CEO of Grid & Pixel. We help 7-9 figure Shopify brands scale with 1:1 creatives that autoplay in 99% of inboxes. We bring email and SMS campaigns to life with eye-catching, personalized graphics. We’ve partnered with Shopify, Klaviyo, Omnisend, and Sendlane to keep things drop-dead simple, allowing you to spend less time tweaking templates and more time driving revenue. With 5 stars, 100+ reviews, and features by Shopify and Klaviyo, we’re proving that personalized content doesn’t just look better—it performs better. Before Grid & Pixel, I spent 12 years as Chief Product Officer at Homesnap, leading the development of the award-winning real estate app before selling it to CoStar Group for $250M in 2020 and rebranding it to Homes.com. I’m also an Advisor to the First Street Foundation and moonlight as a Venture Partner at NextGen Venture Partners, where I love working with entrepreneurs and helping to identify and support big ideas. But enough about me—let’s talk about you. If you’re a Shopify brand looking to drive reliable, repeatable revenue with flows that actually convert, get started today by installing the app for free: https://apps.shopify.com/gridandpixel Or, if you’re a marketing agency that wants to do more with less, take on more clients, or provide an increased level of service, check out our partner program: https://gridandpixel.com/partners Or just send me a DM - break your routine and harness serendipity! Because the only thing that’s truly dead is boring content.

Experience

23 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
6 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
10 yrs 5 mos
Current Experience

Grid & pixel

Chief Executive Officer

Aug 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Grid & Pixel empowers online merchants to unlock higher engagement, conversion, retention, and profitability through groundbreaking levels of automated personalization.
Customer ExperienceTeamworkFinanceInformation TechnologyLeadershipMobile Commerce+22

First street foundation

Advisory Board Member

Apr 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 1 mo · Brooklyn, New York, United States

  • First Street Foundation is a visionary startup working to make climate risk accessible, easy to understand and actionable for individuals, governments, and industry. I serve on the Advisory Board and provide guidance to help shape the Foundation’s strategic direction.
StrategyLeadershipProduct MarketingArtificial Intelligence (AI)Environmental AwarenessMarketing Strategy+2

Nextgen venture partners

Venture Partner

Dec 2015 – Present · 10 yrs 5 mos · Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • NextGen Venture Partners typically invests $1-2 million in seed-stage companies.
Customer ExperienceTeamworkFinanceInformation TechnologyLeadershipComputer Engineering+14

Homesnap

Chief Product Officer

Feb 2010 – Nov 2022 · 12 yrs 9 mos · Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • I invented Homesnap’s signature feature “Snap a photo of any home to find out all about it” in 2012 and evolved the simple idea into a successful, VC-backed proptech business. We grew Homesnap Pro from zero to the most prominent real estate agent SaaS product in the United States with 1M+ agents under contract. As CPO, I led product design, product development, and product marketing for Homesnap (and Citysnap) across all platforms. My Homesnap journey culminated in December 2020, when we sold the business to CoStar Group for $250M in an all-cash transaction.
Customer ExperienceProduct DevelopmentTeamworkFinanceiPhone DevelopmentInformation Technology+25

Aol

2 roles

Technical Manager, Software Development

Promoted

May 2007 – Jan 2010 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Dulles, VA

  • I led a seven-person web development team.
Customer ExperienceTeamworkInformation TechnologyLeadershipComputer EngineeringEntrepreneurship+12

Sr. Programmer/Analyst

Jan 2004 – May 2007 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Dulles, VA

TeamworkInformation TechnologyComputer EngineeringOnline MarketingNetworkingGraphics+7

Ibm

Programmer

May 2002 – Dec 2003 · 1 yr 7 mos · Washington D.C. Metro Area

TeamworkInformation TechnologyComputer EngineeringNetworkingGraphicsTeam Building+2

Education

Penn State University

BS — Management Science & Information Systems

Jan 1997 – Jan 2001

University of Maryland

MBA

Jan 2005 – Jan 2007

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