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Alex Andon

Product at Meta

Menlo Park, California

Overview 

Alex Andon is currently working as a Product at Meta in Menlo Park, California, with a background that includes founding and leading Jellyfish Art as Founder & CEO and holding a Senior Product Manager role at Walmart focusing on Fraud Analytics. He possesses a diverse skill set in entrepreneurship, product development, e-commerce, and strategic partnerships, among others.

Work Experience 

  • Product

    2019 - Current

Meta is a social technology company that enables people to connect, find communities, and grow businesses.

Raised $25,607,817,488.00 from ValueAct Capital.

  • Senior Product Manager, Fraud Analytics

    2016 - 2019

    Led product initiatives across business, engineering and data science teams on digital payment fraud. Drove development of machine learning algorithms to detect risky customer behavior, delivering highly accurate prediction for the world's largest company.

Walmart is a retail corporation that operates several chains of supermarkets, discount stores, and e-commerce platforms.

Raised $5,000,000,000.00.

  • Product Manager

    2015 - 2016

    Simility was acquired by PayPal for $120M. I was the first PM at this startup building advanced fraud-fighting tools for the new kinds of fraud enabled as the world moves to a digital marketplace economy.

Simility helps companies prevent fraud in real-time with machine learning, big data analytics, and data visualization capabilities.

Raised $24,700,000.00 from PayPal Ventures, Trinity Ventures, The Valley Fund and Accel.

  • Founder & CEO

    2008 - 2014

    Jellyfish Art was incubated by Y Combinator and acquired in 2014. I founded this company by selling pet jellyfish aquariums, then expanded it into a Shopify-like e-commerce platform. - Built e-commerce platform for specialty businesses, e.g. international live animal shipments. - Crowd funded product launch in Kickstarter's top-10 biggest campaign. - Built out live animal breeding facility and manufacturing across several factories. - Authored 3 product patents, won multiple product awards, and was featured on top media outlets: NY Times (cover), NBC, Wired, NY Mag, ABC, etc.

Jellyfish Art supplies live jellyfish and specialize in aquariums and products.

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