Eric Shoup
CEO / CPO / Advisor
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
CEO
2018 - 2024
Led early-stage peer-to-peer marketplace for venue rental (aka the Airbnb for Events). Raised Series B led by GV. Expanded from 7 to 45 markets, including 6 new countries. Survived COVID. Grew net rev and bookings by 8x. Achieved profitability throughout last 12 months. Led team of 100. Peerspace was recognized as one of Fortune’s Best Small Workplaces™ in 2022 and 2023.
Peerspace is a peer-to-peer marketplace for booking space for events, meetings, and productions.
Raised $34,800,000.00 from Convivialite Ventures.
Chief Operating Officer
2016 - 2018
Hired to scale late-stage consumer reading subscription business. Managed marketing, BD, content licensing, CS and HR functions. Responsible for operations and strategy. During my tenure, Scribd became profitable and grew its annualized monthly revenue and subscribers by over 50%.
Scribd is an unlimited reading subscription that offers access to books, audiobooks, magazine articles, documents and more.
Raised $106,750,000.00 from Spectrum Equity.
Chief Product Officer
2008 - 2015
Led product management and design for Ancestry.com’s global platform and general management for several of its ancillary businesses. During my time there, Ancestry grew from $200M in revenue to over $600M and from 700K paying subscribers to over 2.2MM. We went public in 2009 and then private again 3 years later. Set Ancestry’s core product strategy and aligned resources, priorities and metrics to execute on strategy. Grew team of product managers, designers and user researchers from 8 to 65 across two locations. Acted as GM for some of Ancestry's side businesses. Most notably, had P&L responsibility for Archives.com, which Ancestry purchased for $100M in 2012. Grew revenue ~20% CAGR and increased profitability from breakeven to 40% EBITDA margins.
Ancestry is a web-based platform that helps its users to create their own family tree and help them preserve and share their family history.
Raised $33,200,000.00 from Silver Lake, Spectrum Equity, GIC and Banneker Partners.
General Manager & Director, ProStores
2007 - 2008
Owned P&L for eBay’s storefront solution for online merchants. Responsible for strategy, marketing, BD and product for cross-functional team of 24 people. Grew ProStores business substantially. In year 1, we increased revenue by 63%, subscribers by 44%, customer satisfaction by 40% and e-commerce transactions completed by 110%.
Group Product Manager
2003 - 2007
Led up to 6 PMs on a range of eBay products including eBay Stores, eBay Mobile, ProStores, Shipping & Merchandising. Grew eBay Stores to largest install base of any storefront offering globally. Formed eBay's first dedicated mobile product team and built its initial mobile apps.
EBay Ventures invests in disruptive companies that are revolutionizing the commerce landscape.
Director, Product Management
2000 - 2003
Lead a suite of enterprise-level e-commerce applications. Scope of responsibility was broad and dynamic as the company pioneered a young and rapidly growing B2B e-commerce industry. Led a team of up to 4 product managers focused primarily on B2B auctions and sourcing solutions.
Director, Project Management
1998 - 2000
Director of Project Management for a 250-person international Internet strategy and development firm. Developed customers’ Internet strategies and web-based projects including corporate marketing websites, e-commerce applications, interactive web-based trainings and intranet sites.
Senior Product Manager
1997 - 1998
Product Manager for company’s flagship product line focused on providing web developers the ability to stream high-frame rate animation and sound to users on slow modem connections.