Adam Messinger
Hacker
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Technical Advisor
2024 - Current
Whatnot is a live stream platform and marketplace that enables collectors and enthusiasts to connect, buy, and sell verified products.
Raised $484,700,000.00 from DST Global, Y Combinator Continuity Fund, Bond, CapitalG and Andreessen Horowitz.
Technical Advisor
2020
Tetrate provides enterprise-ready service mesh for all workloads and all environments.
Raised $52,500,000.00 from 8VC, Dell Technologies Capital, Scale Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Samsung NEXT, NTT Venture Capital and Intel Capital.
Board Member
2020
Technical Advisor
2021 - 2023
Chime is a financial technology company that offers mobile banking services.
Raised $2,292,603,117.00 from Vantage Legacy Capital.
Technical Advisor
2020 - 2022
Board Member
2013 - 2022
New Relic is a digital intelligence company that delivers full-stack visibility and analytics to enterprises.
Raised $214,500,000.00 from TPG, Wellington Management, T. Rowe Price, Fidelity, BlackRock, Passport Ventures, Tenaya Capital, T. Rowe Price and Trinity Ventures.
Technical Advisor
2018 - 2021
Zuora provides cloud-based software on a subscription basis that helps companies launch, manage, and transform into a subscription business.
Raised $647,500,000.00 from GIC.
Technical Advisor
2019 - 2020
Airtable is a cloud-based software company that offers an online platform for creating and sharing relational databases.
Raised $1,352,600,000.00 from Salesforce Ventures, Silver Lake, D1 Capital Partners, Franklin Templeton, T. Rowe Price, Friends & Family Capital, XN, Caffeinated Capital, Benchmark and ICONIQ Growth.
Interim CTO/Technical Advisor
2019 - 2019
CTO
2013 - 2016
Charged with returning Twitter to user growth. Responsible for: Product Management User Research and Design Data Science Software, Reliabiilty, Network, Hardware, and Data Center Engineering IT and Security
VP Application Development
2012 - 2013
Charged with making the transition to mobile development Responsible for: UX and Design Phone and Tablet Application Development Mobile and Desktop Web Development Growth Development Search and Relevance Development Revenue Development Internationalization Development Tweetdeck Development
VP Platform Development
2011 - 2012
Charged with making Twitter stable Responsible for: Core SOA services Core data stores Clustering and compute infrastructure
X is a social networking platform that allows its users to send and read microblogs.
Raised $12,869,191,511.00 from Greenlight Capital, Binance, Litani Ventures, Qatar Investment Authority, Qatar Holding, The Lawrence J. Ellison Revocable Trust, Fidelity, Alwaleed Bin Talal, Sequoia Capital and Vy Capital.