Pete Koomen

General Partner

Y Combinator

Present

Visiting Group Partner

Y Combinator

Co-Founder

Optimizely

Optimizely helps businesses optimize the digital experiences they provide to their customers so they can out-experiment and outperform their competitors.

Co-Founder

CarrotSticks

Our goal at CarrotSticks (http://carrotsticks.com) is to provide parents and educators with tools to make learning a more exciting and interactive experience for children. On a marketing budget of $0, we've grown CarrotSticks to more than 50,000 active students in more than 1000 school districts.

Product Manager

Google

Product Manager, Google App Engine (http://code.google.com/appengine) Helped launch and grow the App Engine platform to more than 150,000 developers in its first year, with direct involvement in "Campfire One" launch event, front end and API design, messaging, pricing, terms and policies, press interviews, and industry events. Also successfully led the Google "OKR" team, responsible for driving quarterly company goal-setting process with Google founders and executives, for 2 years. Prior to working on App Engine, was an Associate Product Manager on the Adsense team, launching 13 major publisher-facing features in 1 year.