Desmond Jamal Harris

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Founder & CEO at Trellis Bio · consumer brands, supply chain

Trellis Bio
Raleigh, NC · ET (UTC-5)
11+ years experience
Stanford GSB
English
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Overview

Founder & CEO of Trellis Bio, working on D2C food brands. Signed 41 paying customers, 14 of them enterprises. Raised $23 million across 2 rounds. Jazz piano, badly.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Investors who back our stage and sector
  • Candidates for the role I'm hiring for
  • Working sessions on supply chain
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
Please don't message about
  • Offshore staffing offers
  • Unpaid work or spec projects
  • Generic networking requests

Answers in batches on Fridays

Skills
consumer brandssupply chainmarketingfintech
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Raising a $1M pre-seed for cross-border payouts for nonprofits

Stage
Pre-seed
Raising
$1M
Instrument
SAFE
Committed so far
Opening the round now
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
$297k MRR after 8 months
Use of funds
Product and compliance

$297k MRR after 8 months. Looking for investors who know biotech and can help with hiring.

Raleigh, NCconsumer brandsfintechsupply chain
Open
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

Looking for founding engineers to join Trellis Bio early - D2C food brands

Role
Founding engineer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Compensation
$162k-$207k
Team
Founding team, 10 people
Start
As soon as possible
Must have
Production experience with supply chain Production experience with consumer brands Comfort with ambiguity
Process
Intro call, technical deep dive, team chat

Comp $202k-$221k. Three interviews over a week. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

Raleigh, NCmarketingsupply chainconsumer brands
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Experience

  1. Founder & CEO
    Jun 2023 - Present
    Trellis Bio · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Raleigh, NC
    • Took Trellis Bio from zero to $1 million ARR.
    • Previously built and sold a small D2C food brands company.
  2. Principal Product Manager
    Sep 2020 - Jun 2023
    ServiceNow · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Raleigh, NC
    • Led or co-led 20 investments, 2 of them now at Series B or later.
    • Previously an operator for 6 years before investing.
  3. Product Manager
    Apr 2019 - Sep 2020
    Nike · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Raleigh, NC
    • Launched the logistics product in 8 markets.
    • Took logistics activation from 24% to 45% in three quarters.
  4. Director of Product
    Nov 2017 - Apr 2019
    Expedia Group · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Raleigh, NC
    • Ran 80 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new logistics customers from 9 days to 1.
  5. Product Manager
    Oct 2015 - Nov 2017
    Walmart · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Raleigh, NC
    • Took logistics activation from 22% to 51% in three quarters.

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Education

  1. Stanford GSB
    MBA, Business Administration
    2017 - 2019
  2. Boston University
    BS, Economics
    2011 - 2015

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