Jacob Samuelson Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

I led several high performing products teams to rapidly grow and differentiate Wayfair’s verticals, with emphasis on our emerging categories beyond furniture including appliances, housewares, renovation, storage, grills, outdoor, flooring, and more. I'm proud that our Home Improvement categories are now > $2B in revenue and Housewares approaching $1B!

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Lead product team at Catalant including product strategy and execution, building out our product organization, and shaping culture and processes.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Catalant provides global enterprises with software solutions to access business expertise on demand.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Develop and own roadmaps from two product teams: 1) web learning experience focused on completion and personalization2) our mobile -- iOS and Android -- learning experience teams. Some recent highlights from my product teams:• Overhauled learner course dashboards for 20M+ learners, increasing course completions by 10% (single largest boost in this metric in 2016). See blog post: https://blog.coursera.org/new-progress-tracking-features-on-coursera/• Launched mobile-first learning features including tools to enable mobile note-taking, set reminders, and seamlessly take majority of course experience offline. See blog post on notes: https://blog.coursera.org/new-mobile-features-transcripts-notes-reminders/ and offline: https://blog.coursera.org/mobile-offline-features/• Launched diagnostic quizzes to match learners to one of 2000+ courses based on their skill level / background.• Launched first iteration of in-course "assistant / guidance" to help learners progress through difficult courses.• Modified critical points in the learning experience to transition Coursera to subscription-based payment model in 2016.• Created features to drive social learning, including innovative discussion forum improvements.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Helping build great learning products for Coursera's learners around the world.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Launched and led the Corporate Strategy group for Coursera during important growth phase. Worked directly with executive team to track revenue and financial targets, launch new business lines, and raise capital.Key accomplishments for my team during this period• Led analysis leading to prioritization and launch of two key business lines: enterprise sales and degree programs• Part of 5 person team with CEO to secure $60M+ Series C financing • Led financial planning, analysis, and revenue targets for 2016 fiscal year• Delivered monthly revenue updates to executive team and coordinated cross-company presentation for quarterly board meetings • Business partner to product teams for new initiatives impacting revenue

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Coursera is an education company that partners with the top universities and organizations in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. Our technology enables our partners to teach millions of students rather than hundreds. I work on strategy and business development to help our students, partners, and company succeed.

Austin, Tx, Us

Education Venture Capital: sourcing, supporting, and developing breakthrough education businesses.

Helping student run venture fund make impact investments. 2012: Co-led investment diligence process leading to WSVF's first ever venture investment in Goalbook ($50K edtech co-investment with New School Venture Fund)2013: Sole student representative on WSVF's 2013 Investment Advisory Committee for investment in Learnsprout ($50K edtech co-investment with Andreessen Horowitz)

San Francisco, California, Us

Four month strategic advising project for Sequoia-backed mobile gaming company.

Making money to pay for business school and learning a ton!—-Kuato Studios is an edtech start building engaging apps which merge the worlds of gaming and learning with next-generation AI. Kuato's first game "Hakitzu: Code of the Warrior" is a JavaScript-based strategy game, where players build warrior robots and use code to survive.

New York, New York, Us

• Worked for Acumen CIO, Brian Trelstad, to plan and operationalize venture fund focusing on health and education• Helped develop pitch documents, competitor mapping, pipeline assessment, and roll-out plan that led to spin out from Acumen fund in fall 2011

New York, New York, Us

The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to increasing the effectiveness of impact investing. Impact investments aim to generate social or environmental value alongside financial profits, and deliver market-based solutions to the world’s most pressing problems.I joined the GIIN as the organization's 2nd employee, and supported efforts to build critical industry infrastructure, including GIIN's impact measurement initiative and help deliver the GIIN's communications, research, and operations.I also developed and managed ImpactBase (www.impactbase.org) a global database of impact investment funds. On ImpactBase, fund manages can create profiles to raise visibility for their investment approaches. Investors and advisors use ImpactBase to search for funds that fit with their impact investment interests and objectives.

• Strategy associate and manager.• Focused on media and technology strategy, as well as long-term scenario planning.• Served as chief researcher for monthly BusinessWeek.com columns on digital business for writer Jeffrey Rayport, and chief editor for Google sponsored white paper Envisioning the Cloud: The Next Computing Paradigm (April 2009)

New York, New York, Us

Case leader for consulting projects for leading poverty alleviation organizations in New York City including Year Up, Neighbors Together, and Managed Work ServicesDesigned knowledge sharing database, helping Robin Hood deliver information on strategic planning, legal, accounting, information management, and real estate support to its grantee organizations

Mba (With Honors)

Ba, Economics (Cum Laude)