Who we are
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Shawn Carolan
CEO of H&L and Managing Director, Menlo Ventures. Investor in Roku, Siri (Apple), PlaySpan (Visa), IMVU, YuMe, TeleNav and PlayPhone. Former software engineer.
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Jonathan McCoy
Serial entrepreneur, tech polymath. Director of SW engineering. Rails, javascript hack. Background in semantic knowledge modeling, process modeling
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Blake Mills
Rails enthusiast. Founder, 15 Minute Calls, theHelmetLock. Senior Software Developer, Airwave Wireless, Aruba Networks, 4anything.
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Greg Tomei
Rubyist, JS hackr, and TDD practitioner.Senior Software Engineer. Blurb, Web System Studio, Carbon Five.
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Brian Tobin
Full stack engineer, UX kvetch. Previously a senior developer at Meraki, Inc.
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Ian McDowell
Code junkie, UX enthusiast, startup convert. Past lives range from customer support to interaction design at Google and Salesforce.
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Liron Yahdav
Rails junkie. Rubyist. XP practitioner. Senior Full-Stack Engineer. Previously Software Engineer at Manilla.
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Kurt Snyder
Ruby fan, Rails fan, TDD advocate, workflow optimization, document databases, risk management. Founder, Cadenza Inc.
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Wolfram Arnold, Ph.D.
Physicist turned rails afficionado, consultant/trainer. VP Engineering, Papercheck. Founder, RubyFocus & WTA Consulting
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Rodrigo Vanegas
Veteran startup junkie and devoted rubyist. Senior Engineer, Glam Media, Sportgenic, SuccessFactors
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Vineet Mehta
Techie turned VC turned techie again. Senior Associate, Menlo Ventures. Focus on mobile and web apps, advertising, infrastructure
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Yvette Ma
Finance maven, Jill-of-all things G&A. Start-up CFO, Syfto, mywaves, Questra. Senior Finance & Sales Ops, ONI Systems.
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Doan Truong
Quality assurance guru, rails enthusiast. Senior QA, Glam Media, Sportgenic, Sonic Solutions, Roxio
About us
We're building a web app to transform the way knowledge workers operate. We're backed by $1.5M from Menlo Ventures.
"Engaged customers are the key to a successful startup. In H&L's case, I can't wait to be the first customer"
Steve Blank, Lecturer Stanford and UC Berkeley, Cofounder E.piphany, Cofounder Rocket Science
"H&L will revolutionize human productivity, it will give us back billions of lost human hours of life. Hours we can spend living rather than being drowned in a sea of bits"
Shervin Pishevar, Managing Director Menlo Ventures, Former GM Mozilla, Former CEO SGN
"SRI has studied knowledge work for over a decade and H&L is one of the most compelling approaches we've seen that can change the game"
Norman Winarsky, PhD, Norman Winarsky PhD. VP, SRI Ventures, Board member of Siri
Career Opportunities
We use bleeding edge technology and seek amazing people to join us. While we watch our burn rate carefully, we value our people and know how to reward them. Our open positions are list below. If you don't see something that interests you, email us at jobs@handl.it and let us know you can make a difference.
