Margaret Griffin

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VP of Product at Basil Finance · Marketplaces

Basil Finance
San Francisco, CA · PT (UTC-8)
14+ years experience
Johns Hopkins University
English
Co-founder
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Overview

I lead marketplaces at Basil Finance in San Francisco. Launched the marketplace product in 7 markets. Before that: Visa and Dell Technologies. Learning to draw.

Good reasons to reach out
  • People who want to build this with me
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Questions about marketplaces
Please don't message about
  • SEO and link-building offers
  • Offshore staffing offers
  • Feature requests for my employer's product
Skills
unit economicstrust & safetymatchingtwo-sided networks
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Need a commercial co-founder: API security in the UK

The idea
API security in the UK
Stage
Customer interviews
I bring
8 years in marketplaces
Looking for
Operator who has scaled a team
Commitment
Part-time to start
Location
San Francisco or remote

I bring 21 years of marketplaces (currently Basil Finance). Ideally you've shipped B2B software. Pre-product, some customer interviews done.

San Francisco, CAmatchingtrust & safetytwo-sided networks
Open

Experience

  1. VP of Product
    Oct 2022 - Present
    Basil Finance · 4 yr · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Ran 141 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
    • Grew marketplace revenue from $4 million to $19 million ARR.
  2. Group Product Manager
    Jun 2019 - Oct 2022
    Visa · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Ran 168 customer interviews before writing the first spec.
    • Took marketplace activation from 32% to 36% in three quarters.
  3. Associate Product Manager
    Jan 2017 - Jun 2019
    Dell Technologies · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Grew marketplace revenue from $7 million to $20 million ARR.
    • Cut time-to-first-value for new marketplace customers from 15 days to 4.
  4. Associate Product Manager
    Aug 2014 - Jan 2017
    JPMorgan Chase · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Took marketplace activation from 22% to 50% in three quarters.
  5. Group Product Manager
    Feb 2013 - Aug 2014
    Target · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Took marketplace activation from 29% to 50% in three quarters.

Projects

Side project: a commute planner
2026

Built with unit economics and matching. 4218 people used it last year.

Open-source two-sided networks toolkit
2025

A small library for marketplaces that 416 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. Johns Hopkins University
    MS, Business Administration
    2005 - 2007
  2. UT Austin
    BS, Business Administration
    2001 - 2005

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