Ben Shanken

CEO

United States16 yrs 4 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led product strategy at Coinbase and Discord.
  • Doubled market share against Uber at Lyft.
  • Expert in driving growth and product management.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in Product Management within the Fintech and SaaS industries.

Contact

LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Product ManagementCorporate DevelopmentGrowthBusiness Development

Other Skills

Mergers & AcquisitionsStart-upsFinancial ModelingStrategyStrategic PartnershipsSafetyDeveloper EcosystemsAds Business DevelopmentMarket Share AnalysisAcquisitionOnboardingPHPMobile DevicesSEMMySQL

Experience

16 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
4 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
7 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Coinbase

Vice President of Product

Feb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Lead Growth+Risk at Coinbase
Product ManagementMergers & AcquisitionsStart-upsFinancial ModelingStrategyStrategic Partnerships+1

Discord

Vice President of Product

Jan 2021 – Feb 2025 · 4 yrs 1 mo

  • Led Growth, Safety, and Developer Ecosystems
Product ManagementGrowthSafetyDeveloper Ecosystems

Lyft

3 roles

GM of Ads

Promoted

Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 · 1 yr

  • Built and led the creation of the Ads business at Lyft
Ads Business DevelopmentBusiness Development

Director of Product, Growth

Promoted

Jan 2017 – Nov 2020 · 3 yrs 10 mos

  • We more than doubled market share vs Uber, 10x'd new user activations, dramatically improved unit economics, and created controllable, market levers to automate the scaling of the business.
Product ManagementGrowthMarket Share Analysis

Product Manager, Growth

Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 · 2 yrs

  • Joined Lyft as one of the first PMs, initially focusing on Acquisition & Onboarding, and then later New Passenger Experience and Passenger Growth.
Product ManagementAcquisitionOnboarding

Angel investor

Angel Investor

Jan 2019 – Present · 7 yrs 4 mos

  • SaaS: Retool, Embrace, Metadata.io, Explo (acq. by Omni), Loops, Monocle, Reforge, C/Side, Blok, Ficra
  • Fintech: Keep, Comun, Bouncer (acq. by Stripe), Nova (acq. by AngelList), Reins, Tremendous, Comity Labs (acq. by Dune), Pylon
  • AI/ML: Altera, Archilabs, Transform (acq. by dbt Labs), DagHub, Patterns.app, Flora, F4 Industries, True3D Labs, Plaicin
  • Consumer: Motion, Ergatta, Kai.ai, Interweave Brands, Wyndly, Ditto
  • Marketplaces: PowerUs, A.team, Seasoned, Baton Market, Dimension, Jolly

Answers

Product Manager

Jan 2010 – Jan 2015 · 5 yrs · St. Louis

  • I was the first product manager and GM of multiple business units over the years.

Education

Washington University in St. Louis

B.A. — Economics and Computer Science

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