Erik Kjell has fifteen years' experience leading product and designing useful software that motivates end-users to act. Previously, Erik was co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Tomorrow, whose award-winning1 iPhone app was acquired by Ethos in 2022 after a $100M investment by SoftBank. For over a decade, Erik has invested in early-stage companies like Coinbase and Instacart and now he advises executives in Austin, New York, San Francisco, and Seattle.
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
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Award-Winning PRINCIPAL Product Leader
Erik Kjell has fifteen years' experience leading product and designing useful software that motivates end-users to act. Previously, Erik was co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Tomorrow, whose award-winning1 iPhone app was acquired by Ethos in 2022 after a $100M investment by SoftBank. For over a decade, Erik has invested in early-stage companies like Coinbase and Instacart and now he advises executives in Austin, New York, San Francisco, and Seattle.
