Richard McDonald

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Founder, Loom Works - growth · education · content

Loom Works
Minneapolis, MN · CT (UTC-6)
15+ years experience
Princeton University
English, Arabic
Raising
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Overview

Founder of Loom Works (edtech). 20 years of building before that. Raised $30 million across 2 rounds. Before that: DoorDash and ServiceNow. Most at home with mobile and growth. Travel slowly, usually by train.

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Skills
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RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Raising a $6M pre-seed for tutoring for gig workers

Stage
Pre-seed
Raising
$6M
Instrument
SAFE
Committed so far
$232k from operators in the space
Lead investor
Lead in place
Traction
$154k MRR after 20 months
Use of funds
18 months of runway to Series A milestones

$154k MRR after 20 months. Looking for investors who know payments and can help with hiring.

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Experience

  1. Founder
    Mar 2022 - Present
    Loom Works · 4 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Minneapolis, MN
    • Grew the team to 49 people across 2 countries.
    • Previously built and sold a small edtech company.
    • Signed 280 paying customers, 16 of them enterprises.
  2. Senior Engineering Manager
    Mar 2020 - Feb 2022
    DoorDash · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Minneapolis, MN
    • Mentored 15 engineers through their first promotion.
  3. Director of Engineering
    Dec 2016 - Mar 2020
    ServiceNow · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Minneapolis, MN
    • Moved 69% of search traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  4. Director of Engineering
    Dec 2014 - Dec 2016
    Ford · 2 yr · Full-time · Minneapolis, MN
    • Led the move of 204 screens to a shared React component library.
    • Brought on-call pages for web down from 15 a week to 1.
  5. Principal Engineer
    Jun 2011 - Dec 2014
    HP · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Minneapolis, MN
    • Previously an operator for 7 years before investing.

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Education

  1. Princeton University
    AB, Engineering
    2002 - 2006

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