Richard Rabbat

Lighty AI, Co-Founder & CEO

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Career Highlights

• Made the web faster at Google

• Took a late-stage startup (Tango) from $0 to $30M ARR in 5 months

• Sold my startup (Gfycat) to Snap at the height of Covid

• Improved growth at Twitter from 4% yearly to 18% by rebuilding the data and AI platform (VP of Product / Platform)

Failures

• Managed the transition at Twitter post-acquisition was one of the toughest periods given the huge human toll it took on my teams 

Current focus

• Building a personal assistant (Lighty AI) that will take on all administrative work that impacts our productivity as founder/CEO 

Personal Interests

Running (on the sloping hills of Newton, MA), Reading (mostly management and technology-oriented)

Talk to me about

• Building very diverse teams

• Customer-obsessed mindset and solving problems customers encounter through products and features

I want to talk to you about

• New strategies in growth marketing

• How to deploy marketing spend vs. product-led growth

• Raising a seed pre-launch (Valuation and size)

• Hiring out of big-tech

• Opportunities and pitfalls