Robert Welch

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Co-founder & COO at Drift Analytics | ex-Boeing

Drift Analytics
San Francisco, CA · PT (UTC-8)
15+ years experience
Johns Hopkins University
English, Hindi
HiringRaising
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Overview

Co-founder & COO of Drift Analytics, working on D2C food brands. Raised $33 million across 3 rounds. Previously built and sold a small D2C food brands company. Before that: Boeing and Datadog. Open-source contributor on weekends.

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
  • Second opinions on marketing decisions
Please don't message about
  • SEO and link-building offers
  • Unpaid work or spec projects
  • Generic networking requests

Replies between meetings, usually same day

Skills
supply chainmarketingconsumer brands
HiringHiring for a role
closes in 3 months

Looking for product designers to join Drift Analytics early - D2C food brands

Role
Product designer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
On-site
Compensation
$188k-$221k + equity
Team
Founding team, 5 people
Start
As soon as possible
Must have
A portfolio of shipped product work Comfort working directly with engineers Comfort with ambiguity
Process
Two interviews and a paid trial day

Comp $155k-$225k. One technical chat and a paid trial day. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

San Francisco, CAmarketingsupply chainconsumer brands
Open
RaisingRaising capital
closes in 3 months

Raising a $3M seed for pharmacy logistics for university students

Stage
Seed
Raising
$3M
Instrument
Priced round
Committed so far
Opening the round now
Lead investor
Looking for a lead
Traction
18% month-on-month growth after 13 months
Use of funds
18 months of runway to Series A milestones

18% month-on-month growth after 13 months. Looking for investors who know mobility and can help with regulatory approvals.

San Francisco, CAconsumer brandsmarketingsupply chain
Open

Experience

  1. Co-founder & COO
    Oct 2022 - Present
    Drift Analytics · 4 yr · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Raised $4 million across 3 rounds.
    • Previously built and sold a small D2C food brands company.
    • Signed 351 paying customers, 14 of them enterprises.
  2. Financial Analyst
    Apr 2020 - Oct 2022
    Boeing · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Saved $3 million a year renegotiating vendor contracts.
  3. FP&A Manager
    Nov 2016 - Mar 2020
    Datadog · 3 yr 4 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Ran diligence on 4 acquisitions.
  4. Senior Financial Analyst
    Jun 2013 - Nov 2016
    Bank of America · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Built the operating model the board used for a $223 million raise.
  5. Financial Analyst
    Oct 2011 - Jun 2013
    Nvidia · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Took forecast accuracy to within 3% for 4 straight quarters.

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Education

  1. Johns Hopkins University
    MS, Computer Science
    2012 - 2014
  2. UT Austin
    BS, Computer Science
    2006 - 2010

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