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Co-founder of Switchcam (acq. Facebook) and ML engineer at Instagram and Instacart
Credibility
Traction · 55th percentile
- Switchcam was acquired by Facebook, with the founders hired directly by Facebook.
- Switchcam raised $1.2M in a seed round led by Mark Cuban and 500 Startups.
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Founder score
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Past technical co-founder of Switchcam, a VC-backed event videography startup.
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Switchcam raised $1.2M in a seed round led by Mark Cuban and 500 Startups.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Switchcam was acquired by Facebook, with the founders hired directly by Facebook.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Switchcam had co-founders — Chris Hartley and Bret Welch are both named as founders of the company.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)500 Startups alum — Switchcam participated in the 500 Startups accelerator program.
What you likely need
You're at a pivotal inflection point where a decade of hands-on ads and ML engineering at Instagram and Instacart could fuel either a new company or a serious angel practice — and the right rooms can accelerate both. The most valuable Festival events for you are small, high-trust dinners and roundtables that put you in front of other operator-founders in ad-tech and retail media, active early-stage investors who back technical founders, and 500 Startups alumni who could become co-founders or first customers. You also benefit from positioning-focused gatherings where sharing your depth in auction design and ML optimisation at scale starts building the public reputation that attracts deals, co-founders, and inbound from funds.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- introsA dinner for operator-turned-founders with deep ad-tech or retail-media backgrounds (think ex-Google Ads, Meta Ads, Amazon Ads, Instacart Ads) to pressure-test founding theses and find potential co-founders
- introsA 500 Startups alumni roundtable for batch members now exploring new companies, to surface co-founder matches and early design-partner leads in ad-tech and consumer video
- fundraisingA small thesis dinner with seed and Series A investors actively writing checks into retail-media and programmatic infrastructure startups, where you can share your Instacart and Instagram Ads vantage point and explore what a new company could look like
- introsAn angel investor happy hour for technical operators-turned-angels writing early checks into ad-tech, ML infrastructure, and video startups, to formalise your investing posture alongside peers with similar founder-operator credibility
- positioningA writing and build-in-public workshop for senior ML and ads engineers considering a public thought-leadership practice, focused on turning auction-design and optimisation expertise into essays, talks, and open-source projects that attract co-founders and inbound from funds
- fundraisingA dinner for strong YC applicants with prior accelerator experience (500 Startups, Techstars) and big-tech pedigree who are preparing applications, to sharpen narratives and get warm intros to YC partners
- introsAn advisor matchmaking office-hours session pairing early-stage ad-tech and consumer-video founders with senior operators from Instagram, Instacart, and similar scaled ads platforms looking to take on their first or second formal advisory roles
- tacticalA hands-on evening for senior ML engineers open-sourcing tooling from large-scale ads and ranking systems, to swap release strategies, grow GitHub presence, and connect with the technical community most likely to become early users or co-founders