Ryan Meinzer
I lead product, write code and sell what matters.
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founder & CEO
2024 - Current
We will elevate sustainable mobility with America's first electric flying ferry
Startup Engineer
2023 - 2024
Building tech startups alongside founders with M13's in-house venture studio
M13 provides strategic counsel and operational expertise to help founders grow their companies.
Raised $5,512,500.00 from Manhattan West.
Entrepreneur
2023 - 2024
Building my own tech startups listed at ryanmeinzer.com/ideas
Full Stack Engineer - AI
2024 - 2024
Built enterprise AI RAG apps with Python, ML, NLP, LLMs, Graph & Vector DBs and APIs
Senior Software Engineer - Robotics
2021 - 2023
Built the world's largest robot platform with React, JavaScript, Python, Go, AWS, GCP and APIs
Software Engineer - Frontend
2021 - 2021
Built business-critical applications with React, Redux, JavaScript and PostgreSQL
Head of Sales - Enterprise
2019 - 2019
► Doubled sales YoY by strategic focus of landing and expanding within the enterprise Key clients included Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Visa, Twitter, PayPal, Airbnb, Chase, Adobe, Stripe, GM Cruise and Square. Built eclectic communities in the Bay through team-building adventures.
Account Executive - SMB
2017 - 2019
► Attained 128% quota in 2018 ($3.5M) and 120% quota in 2017 👑 #1 ranked SMB sales rep of LA office 2017 - 2018 AngelList ranked Flexport as the #1 most competitive company to work for in 2017 and Inc. ranked Flexport as the #1 fastest growing company of California in 2018.
Flexport is a full-service global freight forwarder and logistics platform using modern software to fix the user experience in global trade.
Raised $2,699,000,000.00 from Shopify.
Product Manager
2016 - 2017
► Led strategy, development and launch of six apps in six months for a TV network of 55M homes ⭐ "New & Notable" - The Roku App Channel Store • Apps included iPhone, Apple TV, Android, Roku, Fire TV & responsive website with Chromecast • Expanded market reach, increased AVOD CPMs and created new SVOD revenue stream • Integrated Google DFP AVOD on videos and Stripe SVOD on movies and live stream in all apps • Re-engineered entire technology stack for cross-platform video distribution with reduced costs
Account Executive - SMB & Mid-Market
2013 - 2015
► Attained >200% of quota and ranked the #1 sales rep of 3 - 15 person ramped team from 2013 - 2015 (Salesforce's Heroku Division) 👑 #1 ranked rep of the 15 person ramped team Q1 & Q2 of 2015 (210% annualized quota) 👑 #1 ranked rep of the 15 person ramped team of 2014 (287% quota) 🏆 Voted the MVP of 2014 by the 15 person ramped team 👑 #1 ranked rep of the three person ramped team of 2013 (202% quota) • Attained 210% of annualized quota in 2015, 287% of quota in 2014 and 202% of quota in 2013 • Developed, sold and supported products with cross-functional teams including runtime, routing, API, languages, data services, security, operations, partners, enterprise, marketing and support • Continually improved sales process through multivariate testing of my gamification techniques that increased customers' probability of implementing my technical optimization advice by 130%. • Clients included the President's barackobama.com, Facebook's internet.org, BitTorrent's P2P network, Pebble's smartwatch, Snoop Dogg's merryjane.com and Citrix's GoToMeeting • Sourced and acquired most new customer accounts over last 9 quarters (173% team average) • Generated most recurring revenue from new accounts over last 8 quarters (155% team average) • Generated most recurring revenue from held accounts over last 7 quarters (147% team average) • Generated most long-term contract revenue over last 7 quarters (573% team average - not a typo) • Recognized as a top 1% volunteer of the 10K person Salesforce Bay Area employee base of 2015
Salesforce is a cloud-based software company that provides customer relationship management software and applications.
Raised $65,375,124.00 from Starboard Value.