Oct 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Sep 2021 – Feb 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · Hybrid

• I'm responsible for building 3 big bets for Stripe: (1) business identities and a financial network that connects businesses directly, (2) the trusted identity layer for merchants, platforms, marketplaces and consumers interacting through Stripe, (3) a fast-growing SaaS (20X y/y) for digitally-native businesses to let Stripe do the undifferentiated heavy lifting for everything identity.

Oct 2020 – Aug 2021 · 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Led LinkedIn's R&D investments and PM teams working on verticals such as Skills, Apply experience, Apply integrations, Talent Brand, Assessments and Screening, Video Intros, Resume, Referrals, Hearing Back, Salary, and other matching products. My PM org spends most of its energy on Identifying problems on marketplace matching and building products that solve for fastest and skills-first hiring outcomes in the world's largest hiring marketplace.

Dec 2018 – Oct 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Building the matching product stack for the jobs marketplace: marketplace design, matching systems, assessments, metadata, and venture initiatives to stepchange matching and hiring outcomes in one of the most meaningful and valuable marketplaces on the net

Jan 2018 – Dec 2018 · 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• ScoreBeyond was acquired by LinkedIn and is now part of LinkedIn Talent Solutions.
• Our new mission is to enable LinkedIn members to hire and get hired on the basis of fit.
• I am building products and initiating new venture bets for marketplace design and matching systems for the jobs marketplace.

Jan 2015 – Aug 2019 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Istanbul, Turkey

• Serve as an advisor on broad range of technology matters and tech-infused industry trends to the CEO and the executive team.

Jan 2013 – Present · 13 yrs 4 mos

• Select investments: Rippling, Public.com, Airtable, Flexport, Chaos Labs, Bluedot, Bluebirds, Frigade

Jul 2012 – Jan 2018 · 5 yrs 6 mos · Palo Alto, CA

• ScoreBeyond was a 4-sided marketplace for students, parents, tutors, and schools to track learning performance via apps and book private and group tutoring via our success-guaranteed marketplace. Lead investors were Sequoia (2012) and Khosla (2014). Sold to LinkedIn in 2018.
• We invented a learning marketplace that delivered precise matches between tutors and college-bound students. The matching AI was so precise that all tutoring packages came with full-money-back guarantees tied to significant score gains for each student.
• In Jan 2018, LinkedIn had acquired ScoreBeyond and welcomed its core team to the LinkedIn Talent Solutions organization to create better and faster matches in the talent marketplace.

Oct 2011 – Jun 2012 · 8 mos · Seattle, WA

• Manage product roadmap for Kindle ebook store, recommendation systems and customer experience.

Sep 2010 – Oct 2011 · 1 yr 1 mo · Seattle, WA

• Amazon.com turns $31B worth of revenue globally from an average inventory size of $2.5B. We strive to grow the first number and reduce the second as much as possible while automating the whole decision process. We build software that continuously deliver these goals while maximizing choices and minimizing price for our 120+ million customers. Briefly, a highly complex product development process that touches each and every area of the business.
• On the flipside, we develop software to optimize our inventory position at any moment. Some questions we continuously work on:
• How to optimally distribute any piece of inventory at any time given our fulfillment center network locations and capacity, customer demand, shipping costs and delivery date promises
• How to understand when we no longer need the inventory in our fulfillment network
• How to remove the unwanted inventory when we no longer need it
• How to maximize the value out of unwanted inventory
• Instead of answering these questions on a case by case basis, we develop software that solves millions of questions every day, giving an edge for Amazon to scale globally...

Jun 2009 – Aug 2009 · 2 mos

• 2 projects with NYC office: (1) Mobile-first media (2) Expansion to China

Apr 2009 – Jul 2009 · 3 mos

• Evaluate venture investing deals in consumer internet, life sciences and energy domains.

Apr 2008 – Jul 2008 · 3 mos

• Evaluated of online business segments and start-ups for the largest venture capital firm in Turkey.

Feb 2005 – Apr 2008 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Istanbul, Turkey

• Brand Management, Category Development, and New Product Launches for Pantene, Mr. Clean, and Oral-B.

Jun 2004 – Oct 2005 · 1 yr 4 mos · Istanbul, Turkey

Sep 2004 – Sep 2010 · 6 yrs

• Inventia Capital is a micro venture capital with a focus on university-sourced start-ups.