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Derek Wesley Le

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Principal Product Manager at Corvid Consulting · Lending · compliance, product strategy

Works at
Corvid Consulting
Location
New York, NY · ET (UTC-5)
Experience
15+ years experience
Education
Duke University
Languages
English

Overview

I've spent 17 years on lending - first at Meta, now at Corvid Consulting. Cut time-to-first-value for new lending customers from 18 days to 3. Before that: PayPal and Nike.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on consumer
  • Questions about consumer
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
Please don't message about
  • Decks without a clear ask
  • Courses and coaching offers
  • Offshore staffing offers

Slower in the last week of each quarter

Skills
complianceunderwritingproduct strategytechnical product management
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for first-time founders: lending and technical product management

Topics
consumer, underwriting, compliance
Format
Calls
Terms
Equity
Capacity
One call a month
Best for
Seed to Series A teams

17 years of lending. One call a month or async reviews.

New York, NYtechnical product managementproduct strategyunderwriting

Experience

  1. Principal Product Manager
    Aug 2022 - Present
    Corvid Consulting · 4 yr 3 mo · Contract · New York, NY
    • Sit on 4 boards.
    • Previously an operator for 5 years before investing.
    • Backed 27 founders at pre-seed and seed.
  2. Senior Product Manager
    Jan 2019 - Aug 2022
    PayPal · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new lending customers from 18 days to 2.
  3. Group Product Manager
    Feb 2017 - Jan 2019
    Nike · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Took lending activation from 20% to 43% in three quarters.
    • Killed 5 features nobody used and shipped the 3 that customers asked for.
  4. Associate Product Manager
    May 2014 - Feb 2017
    Coinbase · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Ran 74 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
  5. Associate Product Manager
    Apr 2012 - May 2014
    Meta · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Took lending activation from 21% to 46% in three quarters.
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new lending customers from 21 days to 2.

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Education

  1. Duke University
    BS, Economics
    2005 - 2009

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