Cornell University - Ithaca, NY

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For executive education while I was building Tomorrow, I took Design Thinking classes at Cornell University. They were immensely valuable in helping me expand my creativity when I was otherwise heads-down, buried in product and engineering management. Highly recommended.

Cornell University - Ithaca, NY

Role

Product Lead

Dates

Month, 2018 - Month, 2019

Accomplishments

Seed funded a startup with $2M from Dan Nordstrom
Built a team of 8 including specialists in marketplaces, payments
Designed an end-to-end licensing and royalty payment platform
Negotiated a partnership with the NFL Players Association
Reduced overhead of licensing department by a factor of 50:1
Sub-licensed digital assets from NFL licensees Topps and EA
Reduced the time to get a licensing deal from 6 months to 6 days
Collected pre-paid, guaranteed, and advance royalty payments
Tracked sales via API and computed revenues for reporting
Computed royalty payments for 1,800+ NFL players on 32 teams
Sold the technology to the NFL Players Association

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For executive education while I was building Tomorrow, I took Design Thinking classes at Cornell University. They were immensely valuable in helping me expand my creativity when I was otherwise heads-down, buried in product and engineering management. Highly recommended.