Casey Haakenson

Casey Haakenson has over 20 years of work experience. In 2016, they began working as the VP of Product, Revenue and Growth at Marco Polo, where they grew signups and retention by double-digit percentages and revenue from zero to double-digit millions. Casey also ran a team that designed and evaluated a high volume of experiments on a weekly shipping cadence, as well as created strategic models of the business and made predictions for the board. From 2008 to 2016, Casey was the Co-Founder and Head of Product at Roost, where they created the original vision of the web push product, worked with browsers, built and managed a team of 10, and architected and developed the core messaging platform. In 2007, they worked as a Senior Software Engineer at SchemaLogic, where they were responsible for creating and maintaining flexible GUI/CLI/SOAP architectures, performance profiling of core components, and integration of custom services components into the core product. From 1999 to 2007, Casey was a Senior Software Engineer at F5 Networks, where they were responsible for creating and maintaining UI frameworks, coordinating user interface development globally, and self-motivated to lead projects, evaluate new technologies, and contribute to the company's technical leadership.

Casey Haakenson attended Y Combinator in 2014, where they completed the S14 program focused on startups.