Thor Muller

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Lead Entrepreneur in Residence and AI Strategist @ Mach49
Ashland, OR, US
About Thor Muller

I am an Ashland, Oregon, based vision-oriented leader who helps people, communities and companies through technological transitions. As a founding member of the AI practice at Mach49, Thor works with AI experts researching and developing new ways for AI to enhance the creativity and effectiveness of teams.As the co-founder of the Rogue Valley AI Lab (RV/AI), Thor works to nurture a growing community of our region's AI practitioners, enthusiasts, and curiosity-seekers with bi-weekly sessions open to all. Partnering with local institutions like SOU and Scienceworks, RV/AI aims to integrate AI into local communities in ways that promote health and wellbeing. RV/AI offers opportunities for people to learn about, find work, conduct independent research, and build businesses with generative AI.Thor is also co-author of the NYTimes best-seller "Get Lucky: How to Put Planned Serendipity to Work for You and Your Business." The book shows how serendipity is a skill of "discovering things that you didn't know you were looking for," and why this is a fundamental driver of creative pursuits. Drawing from his experiences as an entrepreneur and creative, Get Lucky outlines eight concrete methods that can be used to increase the presence of serendipity in work, art and play.Thor has founded, advised, and built numerous companies. including Get Satisfaction, a customer service platform that empowered customers, and Zola Electric, which has illuminated lives across Africa with renewable energy.Current specialties: Venture building, AI solution architecture, product strategy, local community regeneration

Thor Muller's Current Company Details
Mach49

Mach49

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Lead Entrepreneur in Residence and AI Strategist
Ashland, OR, US
Website:
mach49.com
Employees:
109
Thor Muller Work Experience Details
  • Mach49
    Lead Entrepreneur In Residence And Ai Strategist
    Mach49
    Ashland, Or, Us
  • Mach49
    Lead Entrepreneur In Residence / Ai Strategist
    Mach49 Jan 2023 - Present
    Redwood City, California, Us
    Evolving at the speed of generative AI. My work here involves new venture/product development alongside AI solutions architecture, engineering, promptcraft.
  • Mach49
    Venture Executive
    Mach49 May 2022 - Present
    Redwood City, California, Us
    As a technology and product-centered executive-in-residence I work with organizations to disrupt themselves as the world re-aligns towards a more human-scale, post-carbon future. My focus areas are AI and Sustainability.Mach49 helps the world's most ambitious companies drive growth through Venture Building and Venture Investing.
  • Department Of Reckless Abandon
    Imagineer
    Department Of Reckless Abandon Aug 2019 - Present
    A laboratory for community building and experimental art experiencesPreviously....a product development consultancy in Amsterdam.
  • Pacerpro
    Product & Strategy Advisor
    Pacerpro Sep 2013 - Present
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    I helped the founders launch this Legal Tech startup, and have continued to provide product and entrepreneurial guidance as it's defined the category and become the leader within it. PacerPro provides unprecedented access, insight and legal automation from the mountains of data available from digital court systems.
  • Zola Electric
    Chief Digital Officer
    Zola Electric 2014 - Jul 2019
    1017 Rp Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl
    I built and ran the software and data organization (and still sometimes advise) for this global renewable energy startup as it scaled from tens of thousands to millions of households. My focus included innovation management on hardware/software products, and service design for a massively distributed app-enabled workforce.
  • Get Satisfaction
    Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer
    Get Satisfaction Jan 2007 - Jan 2012
    Co-founded the company, and served as CEO for the first two years of the company's life. Grew the company to tens of thousands of customer communities and established it as one of the premier social web brands in the social business category. In 2009, I hired Wendy Lea as our chief executive and served as the chief technology/product officer with responsibility for vision, and overall development of product, ultimately serving more than 25 million monthly users.
  • Rubyred Labs
    Founder & Managing Director
    Rubyred Labs Sep 2005 - Feb 2007
    One of the first Ruby-on-Rails-focused web and mobile app development companies. Rubyred was designed as an agile skunkworks for social software. Its unique blend of research, design and technology gave rise to the team and ideas that became Get Satisfaction. We also developed our own projects, including Valleyschwag, one of the first subscription e-commerce ventures, and hosted a Monday morning cereal bar, a popular weekly event for the arts and tech community.General management, business development, product development strategy, technology direction, design
  • Trapezo
    Co-Founder/Evp Product
    Trapezo Mar 1999 - May 2002
    A content syndication platform that enabled organizations to distribute and manage content across an unlimited number of third party sites. Acquired by Perfect Commerce in 2002 after achieving early success serving e-commerce and media customers.
  • Frog Design
    Vp Digital Media
    Frog Design 1997 - 1999
    San Francisco, California, Us
    Frog Design, famous for its industrial design practice, purchased my company, Prophet Communications, and I was thereafter responsible for establishing Frog's world class Internet practice. My work encompassed business development, design management and product strategy in the very immature web applications and e-commerce space. We had to devise our own Web production and app development techniques.General management, business development, product strategy, design management
  • Prophet Communications
    Co-Founder & Executive Producer
    Prophet Communications Jan 1995 - Oct 1997
    San Francisco, California, Us
    Founder of this first generation Web design agency, working with entertainment and technology firms like Intel, Fujitsu, Virgin Records, Sony Entertainment. Acquired by Frog Design in 1997.General management, business development, technology direction, design

Thor Muller Skills

User Experience Start Ups Entrepreneurship Product Management E Commerce Strategy Product Marketing Business Development Digital Media Saas Web Development Strategic Partnerships Social Media Product Development Web Applications Agile Methodologies Team Building Ruby On Rails Web Design Brand Architecture Information Architecture Javascript Product Launch Zen Musicians Brand Development Ruby Node.js

Thor Muller Education Details

  • University Of Iowa
    University Of Iowa
    English / Film

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