Ben Busse
Education
Cornell University
BS, Operations Research & Information Engineering (ORIE) 1991-01-01 - 1996-01-01
Gonzaga College High School
, -Work Experience
Self
Current
Self
UrbanFootprint
2018-08-01 - 2022-06-01
UrbanFootprint
DreamFactory
2013-03-01 - 2018-02-01
DreamFactory
Koolbit
2010-12-01 - 2012-09-01
Koolbit
DreamFactory
2006-08-01 - 2010-11-01
DreamFactory
Dun & Bradstreet
2005-07-01 - 2006-07-01
Dun & Bradstreet
LiveCapital
2003-06-01 - 2005-06-01
LiveCapital
SMEloan Hong Kong Limited
2002-01-01 - 2003-01-01
SMEloan Hong Kong Limited
Zembu Labs
2000-01-01 - 2001-01-01
Zembu Labs
Evant
1998-01-01 - 2000-01-01
Evant
Skills
Summary
I retired from my software career in 2022 to pursue personal interests. I now spend most of my time investing, surfing, traveling, and volunteering as a California Naturalist and Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) for foster youth. I’m always interested in new technology ventures and am open to advisory opportunities where I can add value, particularly helping early-stage software startups find product-market fit and rapidly ship working software. Before retiring, I was a product management executive with 25 years of experience at software startups and public companies. I’ve led the development of successful software products from the ground up, including enterprise B2B SaaS applications, open-source developer platforms, and mobile applications. Three startups I’ve worked at were bought by public companies. My professional specialty is leading product and engineering teams in fast-paced startup environments. I enjoy figuring out how to apply technology to solve hard business problems and leading teams to do it. I thrive in early-stage startups where teams need to build working software quickly and iteratively to discover product-market fit. I have deep technical skills, including engineering management, architecture design, and programming. I know how to collaborate closely with developers, software architects, and technical managers to deliver world-class products. Specialties: software startups, enterprise B2B SaaS, cloud infrastructure, mobile, open-source software, developer platforms, architecture design, databases, APIs.
