Jack Randall
Head of Communications at OpenStore
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Head of Marketing & Communications
2024 - Current
Aetherflux’s mission is to deliver energy to planet Earth. The company was started by Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt, and is backed with $60M from Index, Interlagos, NEA, Andreessen Horowitz, and Breakthrough Energy Ventures.
Advisor
2024 - 2024
Head of Communications
2023 - 2024
I led a team responsible for company-wide communications (corporate, employee, b2b, consumer, etc). I also led marketing for the b2b/merchant side of the business, including content marketing and SEO, events, and influencer marketing.
OpenStore connects merchants and customers into a single unified shopping experience through access to data, information, and capital.
Raised $137,000,000.00 from Lux Capital, Vine Ventures, Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst and Atomic.
Head of Communications
2014 - 2020
I joined Robinhood as the 12th employee and first marketing/comms hire, reporting to the Co-CEOs. I scaled the comms org and managed seven people and agencies, responsible for product, corporate, executive, crisis, and internal communications, as well as our social media and blog platforms. My team and I led comms strategy for all product launches, funding rounds, market expansions, acquisitions, and brand campaigns. We also helped navigate sensitive matters related to product and security issues, leadership changes and re-orgs, regulatory inquiries and lawsuits, and international market departures. At the end of 2020, Robinhood had 1,100 employees, ~15 million users, an $11 billion valuation, and accounted for ~52% of new mobile brokerage accounts.
Robinhood is a stock brokerage that allows customers to buy and sell stocks, options, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies with zero commission.
Raised $6,234,466,886.00 from Emergent Fidelity Technologies.
Corporate & Retail Communications Intern
2014 - 2014
Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets consumer electronics, personal computers, and software.
Raised $1,170,230,000.00 from KB Securities, Berkshire Hathaway and Microsoft.
Marketing & Communications Intern
2013 - 2013
Highland Capital Partners is a venture capital firm that offers seed, early and growth-stage funding solutions.
Marketing & Communications Intern
2012 - 2012
Highland Capital Partners is a venture capital firm that offers seed, early and growth-stage funding solutions.