Paul Ingalls is an experienced entrepreneur and technology leader. He has helped build multiple successful consumer internet businesses in the interactive media and games verticals. These include RealArcade, which defined the fledgling casual games industry by providing the first App Store, and Smilebox, which redefined the electronic greeting market by adding personal photos. With Fanzo, Paul graduated from the Techstars program and built a 5 star mobile app. Most recently he founded and ran Ripl, a mobile app business that provides business owner operators the ability to easily create eye catching, animated videos about their business to share to social media. Under his leadership, Ripl grew from $0 to $10M ARR in 2.5 years.As a result of his 25 years of entrepreneurial experience, Paul’s areas of expertise are broad, spanning both technical, product and business leadership.As a business leader, among other skills he is experienced with business strategy, pitching & fundraising, managing a board of directors, budgeting, forecasting, KPI definition and tracking, hiring experienced leaders in multiple disciplines, digital marketing (especially for mobile app install campaigns on facebook and google), culture definition and team building. He has managed cross functional teams up to 35 people. As a product leader, he is experienced with the lean startup process, customer development, product strategy and roadmap development, user research, pricing research, a/b testing, UX design and other product management skills.As a technical leader, he is an expert software engineer and engineering leader who has been crafting software for 30 years. His skills include agile process management, a wealth of experience with extreme programming (including pair programming, TDD, iterations, planning, user stories etc.), programming languages such as C, C++, ObjectiveC, Java, Ruby, Javascript, Typescript, frameworks such as React, Android, iOS, NodeJS, TypeORM, Rails, platform API’s such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, AWS, deployment platforms such as Heroku, Azure and AWS and more. He’s a skilled systems architect, code designer and programmer. He solves the hardest problems and builds systems that pass the test of time.