Chris Messina
InvestorGeneral Partner at Ride Home
Oakland, California
Writes $100K – $5M checks · typically $1.5M
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
Education
- Carnegie Mellon UniversityBFA, Communication Design1999 — 2003
- Y CombinatorAccelerator, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies2017 — 2018
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.
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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
Investor at Launch House
Matt OckoScout
Founder and Managing Partner at DCVC (Data Collective)
Daniel Salvucci
Partner at Draper Cygnus
Investors connected to Chris in public investor directories — a warm-intro map.
Frequently asked questions
- 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.
Same school
Also attended Carnegie Mellon University383
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Shared employers
Also worked at Republic41
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