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I received all approvals to be promoted to Product Lead in March 2022.2021 - 2022: platform product (admin portal, apis, and content export)2019 - 2021: core desktop and web productSymphony is a collaboration and workflow software provider for financial services firms.Symphony was founded in October 2014 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, with offices in New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Stockholm, Sophia-Antipolis and London.Symphony has raised $461 million from Google, Goldman Sachs, Lakestar, JPMorgan, Citadel, and many others.

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I co-founded Hi-Art, an emoji and gif mobile app and licensing company. We were the first company to make culturally relevant emoji content in the US. We were a team of 8 and built and launched 4 iOS and Android apps, including the first social network for emoji and gifs. We had 100K+ users on our apps and millions across our partner network.We raised $1.4 million in seed capital from angel and venture investors. We partnered with messaging apps, brands, celebrities, film properties, and sports teams, including Viber, Blackberry Messenger, Nimbuzz, Warner Music, Cam’ron, Ghostface Killah (Wu-Tang Clan), Jason Derulo, RCA, Kid Ink, the Fat Jew, Converse, the Sacramento Kings, Lil Bub, Entourage the Movie, the Misfits, Todd James, and GIPHY.We were written about by over 50 press publications, such as Venturebeat, Pitchfork, Entertainment Weekly, MTV.com, Elite Daily, Complex, Refinery29, and Wired (print).Selected advisors included 49ers legend Roger Craig, Instagram celebrity the Fat Jew, and Dom Vonarburg (founder of AddThis).We sold to a brand licensing company in 2017.

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