Ben Fried Email & Phone Number

Yorba Linda, Ca, Us

Orange County, Ca, Us

The VaynerCommerce engineering team has been spun out into a new entity, StackLabs, focusing solely on commerce technology and software engineering. We're super excited to work on the next generation of our commerce tech stack and we'll be partnering closely with VaynerCommerce and the larger VaynerX family to continue providing wholistic and sustainable solutions for clients.

Culver City, California, Us

Lucid Fusion has been acquired by VaynerX, the media and communications company led by Gary Vaynerchuk. As such, we are proud to join our teams and launch VaynerCommerce, a growth engineering firm.

Culver City, California, Us

Lucid Fusion exists to empower the human capacity to innovate and progress for the greater good. As the CTO, I am ultimately responsible for delivering on that promise. I lead a team of exceptionally talented engineers and developers in building successful apps & SaaS products aimed at improving quality of life around the globe.LF is now VaynerCommerce!

I've worked with hundreds of clients for over 20 years years at RealityDesign creating successful websites and applications.

CityMoms was often referred to as "ClassPass for kids." The app helped moms/families find, book, and pay for activities for their children and offered various monthly subscription plans as well as a-la-carte bookings. As the CTO, I was responsible for building everything from the backend services and APIs, to the admin and business owner service portals, to the customer-facing iPhone and Android apps.

Marklet was a tech startup and cloud service that reinvented bookmarks in 2012 and was used in more than 160 countries around the globe. Marklet allowed you to save, organize, and access your “marklets” from anywhere, on any device, in any browser. I was responsible for everything from the back-end core/cloud services, databases, and API, to the browser-based dashboard and front-end, mobile website, Chrome, Firefox, & Safari browser extensions, and iPhone App.

GroupBuy was a social shopping startup that focused on bringing groups of like-minded individuals together around their shopping preferences. These groups could leverage their group buying power to get significant discounts on major name brand products.As the CTO, I was responsible for building the entire technology platform, from the e-commerce/transactional side, to the recommendation engine, to the social network itself.

HSPN was essentially "CNET for cars." We provided news, reviews, and how-to install videos for the automotive aftermarket industry and built out an HD streaming platform before YouTube was a household name. HSPN continues to operate a network of some of the largest car enthusiast forums on the internet.I sold my interest in the company in 2007 to pursue other startups and technology endeavors.