Zane Salim

Zane Salim is currently a Senior Venture Partner at Pioneer Fund. Prior to this, they were a Product Lead at Facebook from August 2019 to January 2021.

At Facebook, Zane helped build and scale a new org focussed on growing Messenger in the US. Zane worked at the intersection of the FB Growth Team and Messenger. Overall, they accelerated year-over-year daily user growth in the US by almost 2x, increasing daily active users by several million in the US and tens of millions globally.

Their strategy established the strategy to grow daily users by increasing conversations across Facebook and Messenger. Zane setup three new areas/teams- Conversation Starters, Ranking, and Response Rate.

Their execution built multiple high impact products across FB and Msgr to help people:

* easily share content with friends and see who is online to chat

* spark conversations from content in Newsfeed, Groups, Stories, etc.

* find friends more easily through better ranking and recommendations

* not miss messages and respond faster through better push-ability and notifications

* get cohesive notification experiences in FB, Msgr, Email and SMS across billions of users

During their time at FB, they were fortunate to work with some amazing people, and learn an incredible amount.

Zane Salim attended the University of Michigan for their Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering. Zane then attended Y Combinator for their Technology Entrepreneurship. Finally, they attended Stanford University for their General Management, Finance and Business Leadership.

Some of their coworkers include Francesco Mosconi - Senior Venture Partner, Stacey Hronowski - Senior Venture Partner, and Whitney Gaynor - Senior Venture Partner, LPAC. Their manager is Jason Gray, Founder, Managing General Partner.