Vincent Wu
COO @Newsbreak
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WORK HISTORY
COO @Newsbreak
San Francisco, CA, US
Grew company revenue by 100x (from <$2M to $200M+/y) and user base (from ~2M to 60M+) in less than 3 years. Secured a $115M Series-C funding from sourcing to close. Applied data science/machine learning into daily business activities to achieve hyper-growth. Running the business side of things - strategy, sales/revenue, BD, content, marketing, fundraising/finance, operations, etc.
EDUCATION
The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Master of Business Administration - MBA
Sun Yat-sen University
Master and Bachelor, Electronic Engineering
ABOUT VINCENT WU
Contact: v••••••••@gmail.com Vincent is the COO at NewsBreak, the country\'s biggest news app - 60M+ monthly audience.$200M+ annual revenue valued @$ 1.2Bn+(Series-C). Since Vincent joined NewsBreak in late 2018, he built the entire business & content arm (business development, sales, content, marketing, finance, business operations, etc.) from scratch, helping to grow the Daily Active Users from 0.5M to 15M and the Monthly Active Users from 2M to 60M, scaling the revenue from ~$2M to $200M+ in less than three years. He built one of the largest news publisher networks in the U.S. and launched a creator program with more than writers, disrupting the local news ecosystem with high growth. He also helped the company secure a $115M Series-C fundraising. Prior to News Break, Vincent was the Head of Business Operations at HuffPost & Yahoo News. Previously, he was the Director of Strategy & Operations at AOL, leading business strategy & operation planning. Vincent has earned several notable industry accolades. He was named by The Digital Analytics Association as the Top New Practitioner in 2018. Vincent has been invited as the keynote speaker at the International News Media Association (INMA), Local Independent Online News (LION), the PingWest “Tech for Good” Summit 2019, the DAA Google Forum, and the Variety Big Data Summit. Vincent spent the early part of his career specializing in data-driven marketing, technology, and management consulting at Accenture and Oliver Wyman.
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