Michael Lew Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Vic, Au

San Francisco, California, Us

On Deck is an early stage founder community designed to help more people start the best companies. 1000+ companies have come out of On Deck, they've raised over $2B, and are collectively worth more than $9B.I led admissions for the On Deck Founders Fellowship.Collaborated closely with the product team on the launch of a new version of our founder pre-accelerator program, with my duties involving communications, community management, and GTM design. Ultimately leading to a successful launch, with program NPS scores nearly doubling.Attracted world-class talent to the program by improving product communications and the sales process, improving offer to acceptance conversion rate to 84% from 55%, leading to ~$500,000 in net new revenue.Owned the admissions process of a highly selective program for early stage startup founders, managing a complex pipeline of ~10,000 of applicants end-to-end. Handled communications relating to admissions, the newsletter, website, activation campaigns, and more.https://www.beondeck.com/

San Francisco, California, Us

Analyzing applications for the On Deck Founders fellowship.

San Francisco, California, Us

SignalFire is the first VC built like a tech company. It's a 2.9B firm engineered to help founders grow.• Increased 3-month average impressions by over 245% and 100% on Twitter and LinkedIn respectively. Average engagements also rose by ~2x.• Assisted in writing newsletters, blog posts, and promotional content across the firm (e.g. https://signalfire.com/why-founders-and-vc-journal-call-oana-olteanu-a-rising-star/)

Couch surfed around the world.Travelled to dozens of cities, over eight countries, and three continents.I made many friends, gathered hundreds of stories, and learnt the true meaning of Christmas ☃️.Landed myself in San Francisco :)

Forgotten Ethereal Worlds.Led social media growth efforts, taking the project’s page from nothing to over 40,000 followers.Helped cultivate the most engaged community in the web3 space with daily activity metrics exceeding 200+ voice chat participants and 40,000+ text messages on Discord.Drove massive traffic to the project, facilitating $15M in value to holders, with a peak valuation of $40M by VCs.Contributed to sustaining 8-10 ETH floor price over six months, starting at a 0.125 ETH mint.

Surry Hills, New South Wales, Au

Blackbird is Australia and New Zealand's largest venture capital company. Grew podcast listenership from 20,000 to 50,000 by using email marketing, coordinated press campaigns, and social media marketing.Wrote content that performed 10x better than previous efforts on channels like LinkedIn.Transformed the value proposition of the podcast such that it became one of Blackbird's most strategic lead generators for talent, with over 50% of new hires from some of Australia’s fastest growing startups (Eucalyptus, Dovetail, and Vow) mentioning the podcast as a key part of their decision to join the company.

The World Sleep Championship is a global sleep racing competition. Made to make sleep-health sexy. https://www.worldsleepchampionships.com/While here I:• Invented an international holiday to promote sleep health in workplaces.• Pitched and signed on Microsoft, Who Gives a Crap, Square Peg Capital, and other workplaces.• Informed entire company workforces about our brand, established connections for future partnerships, and got hundreds of employees an extra hour of sleep.

Melbourne, Au

HelpMate was a startup aimed at helping people living with dementia lead more independent lives by empowering carers.• Pitched on behalf of our team for MYMI's (Monash Young Medtech Innovators) MedHack 2021 competition, winning the competition• Conducted user interviews with over 100 people, including geriatricians, carers, people living with dementia, and occupational therapists• Began developing educational products to assist carers with navigating the government grant programs available to themUltimately, I left once I realized that this was the kind of problem space wherein a fantastic solution would take many years to come to fruition due to the sensitive and regulated nature of the industry. Problems exist here, I think it'd take a portion of a lifetime to solve them with the attention they deserve.

Sydney, Au

Prosple runs the biggest graduate jobs boards in Australia and New Zealand.Helped launch Prosple in the Philippines, assisting in organizing the first virtual career fair in the country, attracting 6000 unique visitors and 33 corporate partners to the event.Attracted over 22,000 visitors to the website throughout the campaign.Wrote a press release for the Philippine Daily Inquirer, the largest newspaper in the country,driving ~10,000 website visits and ~2000 event sign ups.

Melbourne, Au

Sydney, New South Wales, Au

Elevate Education is Australia's largest study-skills workshop provider. Here, I travelled all throughout Victoria presenting to high schoolers.I held a 98 NPS after presenting to over 900 people.The sessions touched on topics like time management, effective exam-taking, and goal setting. During my time at Elevate, I further honed my public speaking ability and improved my capacity to interact, engage with, and adapt to audiences. Because the role had us speaking with high schoolers from around the state, every single session was unique, requiring us to be resilient and flexible to respond to unexpected situations.

Bachelor'S Degree, Communication And Media Studies

Bachelor Of Film And Television (Honours), Cinematography And Film/Video Production