Where does Chris Messina work?

Chris Messina is General Partner at Ride Home.

What check size does Chris Messina write?

Chris Messina typically writes checks of $100K – $5M.

Where did Chris Messina go to school?

Chris Messina studied at Carnegie Mellon University (BFA, Communication Design); Y Combinator (Accelerator, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies).

Chris Messina

Investor

General Partner at Ride Home

Oakland, California

Writes $100K – $5M checks · typically $1.5M

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1,201 people in our graph share verified history with Chris — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.

Javier SolterounlockedChris: together at Carnegie Mellon University (1999–2003)

×3Chris: together at Google

×6Chris: together at Y Combinator

Chris: together at Uber

About

Chris Messina is a General Partner at Ride Home Fund, LLC with over a decade of experience in product design and social technologies. His work includes organizing the Mozilla Firefox grassroots movement, co-organizing the first BarCamp, establishing the first dedicated coworking space in San Francisco, and introducing the hashtag to Twitter. He previously held positions at Google as a Developer Advocate and UX designer, led developer experience at Uber, and co-founded Molly, a Y Combinator-backed company.

Experience

Ride Home Fund, LlcGeneral Partnercurrent2023 — presentOakland, California, United States
RepublicProduct Lead2022Oakland, California, United States
RepublicHead of West Coast Business Development2021 — 2022Oakland, California, United States
RallyCommunity Developers Council (CDC) Member2021 — 2022Oakland, California, United States
On DeckCourse Creator Fellow2021Oakland, California, United States
Citizen AgencyProduct Therapist2020 — 2021Oakland, California, United States
On DeckFellow2020
ZyperProduct Design Consultant2019 — 2020San Francisco Bay Area
FacemojiConsultant2018San Francisco Bay Area
MollyCo-Founder2017 — 2018San Francisco Bay Area
BotnessOrganizer2016 — 2017
TagboardAdvisor2014 — 2017Redmond, WA
UberDeveloper Experience Lead2016 — 2017San Francisco Bay Area
IndependentConsultant2013 — 2015San Francisco Bay Area
GoogleUX Designer2012 — 2013Mountain View, CA
GoogleDeveloper Advocate2010 — 2012Mountain View, CA
OpenID FoundationBoard Member2009 — 2011
Citizen AgencyCo-founder2006 — 2010
Vidoop LLCOpen Web Advocate and User Experience Design Lead2008 — 2009
Microformats.orgAdvocate2005 — 2009
Open Web FoundationBoard Member2008 — 2009
Pioneers of the Inevitable (Songbird)Consultant2008
BarCampCo-founder2005 — 2008
Self-employedHashtag Inventor2007San Francisco
FactoryCity.netOwner1998 — 2006
FlockDirector of Experience and Open Source Ambassador2005 — 2006
Mozilla FoundationSpread Firefox Admin2004 — 2005

Skills & more

Strategy20Cohort LeadershipProduct DesignEnd User ResearchSalesforce.com Development1Customer Relationship Management (CRM)Enterprise SoftwareOrganizational DevelopmentAirtableMarketingDeveloper AdvocacyMarketing Strategy8

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User ExperienceCSS3Information ArchitectureInteraction DesignUser Interface DesignCSSSocial NetworkingWeb 2.0Product ManagementWeb DevelopmentWeb ApplicationsWeb Design

SOE-XETECH0001 - Ethics, Technology and Public Policy for Practitioners — Stanford Online
Preventing Workplace Harassment — Emtrain

From Chris's professional profile.

Network8

Alan PatricofScout

Chairperson & Co-Founder at Primetime Partners

Alejandro GalvezScout

Managing Partner at 99 Startups

Anna RaptisScout

Partner at Amplifica Capital

Brian RequarthScout

General Partner at Latitud Ventures

Carey RansomScout

Managing Director at BankTech Ventures

Christian GammillScout

General Partner at Industrious Ventures

Matt OckoScout

Founder and Managing Partner at DCVC (Data Collective)

Daniel Salvucci

Partner at Draper Cygnus

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Chris Messina?: Chris Messina is a General Partner at Ride Home Fund, LLC with over a decade of experience in product design and social technologies. His work includes organizing the Mozilla Firefox grassroots movement, co-organizing the first BarCamp, establishing the first dedicated coworking space in San Francisco, and introducing the hashtag to Twitter. He previously held positions at Google as a Developer Advocate and UX designer, led developer experience at Uber, and co-founded Molly, a Y Combinator-backed company.
Where does Chris Messina work?: Chris Messina is General Partner at Ride Home.
What check size does Chris Messina write?: Chris Messina typically writes checks of $100K – $5M.
Where did Chris Messina go to school?: Chris Messina studied at Carnegie Mellon University (BFA, Communication Design); Y Combinator (Accelerator, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies).

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Also attended Y Combinator2,000

Ryan SheaCo-founder of Blockstack (Stacks)Suhail DoshiFounder of Mixpanel; founder of Particle Arhaan A.Deeptech Fellow at Clear Ventures Akshat GoenkaInvestor at Moonfire Ventures Jon XuGeneral Partner at Y Combinator Chris GoldaGeneral Partner at Y Combinator

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Shared employers

Also worked at Republic59

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