David Jesse
Founder & Advisor
at Crescendo Product Group
Product executive, coach and transformation leader with twenty-five years of experience scaling startups up through global businesses. Proven success as CPO at Fetch (grew from 1.2M to 5.1M active customers), VP Product at Groupon (led product through hypergrowth prior to IPO), as well as product executive roles at DoorDash, eBay, and Gaia Interactive.
As a coach and fractional product leader, I’ve guided dozens of companies from seed stage to Fortune 20, focusing on:
- Building high-performing product organizations
- Defining outcome-driven product strategy
- Scaling through critical growth phases
- Transforming product culture and processes
Deep expertise in marketplaces, e-commerce, and consumer products, with successful advisory experience across SaaS, fintech, healthcare, and enterprise software. Available for leadership coaching, advisory roles, board roles, and fractional product executive engagements.
Content & Articles by David Jesse
Lessons From Building An AI-Native Startup with Octagos Health
In this Mucker Growth Series session, we invited friends from one of our portfolio companies Haley Chute, CPO & CMO, and Harpreet Marwaha, COO & CFO of Octagos Health, to...
How To Craft Your Website Messaging & Positioning as a Startup
In this Mucker Growth Series session, Anthony Pierri, co-founder of FletchPMM, walks through how to craft website messaging and positioning as a startup. FletchPMM is a consultancy that has worked...
2026 New York Tech Week Recap of Mucker Sessions
Mucker Capital went to New York Tech Week to host sessions for founders, operators, and builders thinking through how AI is changing product, growth, and search. Among the sessions were:...
Closing Enterprise Deals in Founder-Led Sales as a Startup
In our recent Mucker Growth Series session, I invited David Mackay, Managing Director at D9Y and one of our operating experts at Mucker, to talk about closing enterprise deals in...
The 10 Security Gaps That Plague Startups Before Their A Round
A NOTE ON SEVERITY Not every item on this list carries the same level of risk. Some are the kind of finding that stops a deal. Others are serious but...
Community-Led Growth for Startups: Why Most Communities Fail and How to Build One That Actually Works
In our recent Mucker Growth Series session, I invited Sam Jacobs — founder and CEO of Pavilion — to talk about community-led growth: what it actually means, why most communities...