Erik Kjell1 is a UI+UX designer who turns business ideas into new products at BeginnerBank.com – a venture studio that helps startups seeking product-market fit to scale from 0-1 million users profitably.
Previously, Erik was co-founder and Chief Product Officer (CPO) of Tomorrow a 21-person, Series-A company that built an award-winning DIY estate planning app licensed in all 50 states. All-digital insurance company Ethos acquired Tomorrow in January 2022 and fully integrated the product into their core business.
1Kjell is pronounced 'ch-el' in Norway
Erik Kjell
Role
Product Lead
Dates
Month, 2018 - Month, 2019
Accomplishments
- Built a team of 6 developers specializing in A.I. and data science to make a new search engine
- Seed-funded a startup from concept to MVP in 3 months
- Conceived of a new approach to natural language processing (NLP) to measure sentiment
- Created an algorithm that separated signal from noise in unstructured data
- Achieved a combined relevance and confidence of 95%
- Applied the algorithm to public data sets at a volume of 1B posts per week
- Negotiated a 1-year global Twitter firehose partnership
- Built an automated net prompter score (NPS) for the top 1,000 consumer brands
- Optimized the model to infer intent for user acquisition, retention, and churn in social data
- Learned the risk of building a product on a 3rd party data when renewal cost increased 10x
Erik Kjell1 is a UI+UX designer who turns business ideas into new products at BeginnerBank.com – a venture studio that helps startups seeking product-market fit to scale from 0-1 million users profitably.
Previously, Erik was co-founder and Chief Product Officer (CPO) of Tomorrow a 21-person, Series-A company that built an award-winning DIY estate planning app licensed in all 50 states. All-digital insurance company Ethos acquired Tomorrow in January 2022 and fully integrated the product into their core business.
1Kjell is pronounced 'ch-el' in Norway
