David Sobie is the co-founder and CEO of Happy Returns in Santa Monica, CA. Happy Returns was founded in 2015 and pioneered box-free returns for e-commerce retailers, speeding customer refunds and reducing return shipping costs. Happy Returns was acquired by PayPal in 2021. After a period of exponential growth, UPS acquired the company in 2023. […]
Former CPO and GM of startups and mid-sized companies including Upwork, 33Across, Financial Engines, Realtor.com, as well as Operating Executive at Silver Lake, a leading tech private equity firm. I’ve gone through multiple adventures of creating new product categories, finding product-market fit, (re)building the organization, and scaling from pre-revenue to eight+ figures. Lately, I’ve been
Now based in Europe after 20+ years in LA and the Bay Area, Jason is a seasoned pro in building startups, mentoring early-stage companies and scale-ups, and stepping in as a fractional or interim C-suite leader for Seed to Series C stages. With a background that includes being on the founding team at ResortPass and
Roberto is a board member in cybersecurity, AI, Blockchain, IoT, middleware, API security, microservices, DevOps, software, SaaS, cloud and healthcare companies. Roberto has been an executive at five public companies and in a board position of more than 15 that have been acquired. He has experience with Fortune 100 companies on digital transformation initiatives using
Eric Wu is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) on the Go-To-Market Network team, focused on SEO and growth marketing. Before joining a16z, he was director of product at PayPal where he led the shopping experience team. Prior to PayPal’s acquisition of Honey, he served as the vice president of product growth for Honey. Over
