Shariq Rizvi
Investor Advisor Board Member @Angel Investor
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WORK HISTORY
Investor Advisor Board Member @Angel Investor
Investing in & helping startups led by bold entrepreneurs who I overlapped with at Google, Twitter/X, Reddit, UC Berkeley, IIT and more.
EDUCATION
University of California, Berkeley
MS, Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley
PhD (not completed -- leave of absence), Computer Science
Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
B.Tech. (B.S.), Computer Science & Engineering
ABOUT SHARIQ RIZVI
Reddit\'s first EVP/GM of Monetization. 5+ years as a member of the company\'s senior executive (“SLT”) team. On this company-building journey, we scaled our revenue engine to a $1.2 Billion+ run-rate, achieved GAAP profitability, built a world-class team and launched many successful AI-driven products. We took the company public (NYSE:RDDT) with our March 2024 IPO, reaching a market cap of $30 Billion+ soon after - Helped grow the Twitter ads business into a multi-billion-dollar revenue engine, enabling the company to go public (NYSE:TWTR) with a November 2013 IPO. Co-founder of Twitter\'s Performance Ads business, helping grow it from zero to ~$1 Billion in 2012-15- Co-founder of Dasient, a cybersecurity company selling to the world\'s top ad networks, online publishers & financial institutions. Acquired by pre-IPO Twitter in 2012- Co-founder of Netsil, an observability/monitoring platform for cloud-native applications. Acquired by Nutanix (NASDAQ:NTNX) in 2018- One of the youngest published authors in the world of Computer Science research. My two first-authored research papers in Data Science & Data Security as an undergrad student at IIT have been cited more than times by other researchers (as per Google Scholar)
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