Jonathan Grubb

The RVIP Lounge is a karaoke bar housed in a customized Winnebago.

Led large design team for Isis, the NFC mobile payment system from Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile. Also led projects for Microsoft and Colgate.

In 2007, Rubyred Labs spun off Get Satisfaction, a platform providing a simple way to build online communities that enable productive conversations between companies and their customers. It hosts over 50,000 customer communities for companies like P&G, Mint.com, Nike, Foursquare, Visa, American Heart Association, Texas.gov and Microsoft.

I designed the original product and saw the company through the initial fundraising process before relocating to Los Angeles. (I went there for a girl who is now my wife, so while it was a tough decision I'd definitely do it again.) I currently serve as an informal advisor and happy shareholder.

Get Satisfaction has raised $11 million from Azure, First Round, AlphaTech, Freestyle, and SoftTech.

Lookout is the world's leading mobile security company.

I joined in 2009 as the company's first product manager. We were a small and scrappy startup at that point, so in addition to product management I was managing the engineering process, designing the product, writing marketing copy, reporting to the board of directors, investigating malware attacks, and sometimes taking out the trash.

Under my watch, we grew the consumer user-base from 5000 to 5,000,000, launched new products for Android and BlackBerry, and successfully rolled out a premium subscription business model.

Our Android app is consistently one of the highest rated and most downloaded in the market. PC World gave our app a 5-star editorial review and named it one of the top 100 products of 2010. Verizon produced and ran a multi-million-dollar TV ad campaign for our Android app. People really like it.

Lookout has raised $36 million in venture funding from Khosla, Accel, Index, and Trilogy.

In 2005 my partners and I founded Rubyred Labs with the goal of working on whatever we thought was cool with no particular plan. Our design and/or development projects included Yahoo!'s mobile homepage, Sprint's mobile communication software (including the hit Samsung Instinct and 20 million future devices), AdMob's ad buying system, and Heavy.com.

Rubyred’s side projects included
- Valleyschwag: a joke turned real company turned joke again that delivered web schwag to startup fans around the world.
- The RVIP Lounge & Karaoke Cabaret: a rolling party in a 30 foot RV coming to a tech conference or film festival near you.
- Cereal Bar: a weekly Monday morning tech party that gained inexplicable international media attention.

I am responsible for LOUD3R's rapidly growing network of enthusiast content sites, as well as the underlying platform. I manage the sales process with new clients, including collaboration with the CEO on contracts, terms, pricing, and implementation.

I'm currently developing the product offering and building communities around each property, which involves a lot of contact with our customers (be they independent photo-bloggers or global media companies) and throwing parties where we drive around tech festivals singing karaoke in an RV.

I led the global design strategy for Yahoo Mobile, designing Mobile Web, SMS, and embedded applications for Yahoo!'s hundreds of millions of users. My team designed core communication apps that are built into nearly all mobile phones.

At Vodafone, I designed community and communication products for Vodafone Live, introducing usable mobile data services (and the Camera Phone) to many international markets.

I started the day after high school graduation. I spent a lot of time with a frog that solved math problems for second graders.