# Jared Kopf > builder Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/jaredkopf I build companies and invest in ideas and people. "In" for sweat, capital, and staying the course (high grit, high integrity). I believe in continuous learning, establishing new ideas/categories/industries, and working to create lifelong relationships and great teams. I'm open to breakthroughs, curious about genius, and game for discussing wild science, ideas for good, and winning up a level. Today: building again. 0 to 1. And, I'm on the board of AdRoll. Past: AdRoll, HomeRun, Slide, Clarium Capital Management, PayPal, Justarrive. Also, lots of studio/incubation/projects/R&D at Pale Blue Dot (Worldly), Midtown Doornail (Avocado, Bounce, other machine voice/voice AI projects), and at MRL Ventures (Chatango, Yelp, Adzaar). ## Work Experience ### Co-Founder @ Ramble Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Find great people through the great people you know, with unique insight into how your worlds overlap with new people 1° Away. Always through trusted connections. Ramble helps you make the most of your strongest links, for unique insights, recommendations, warm intros, and getting perspectives focusing on people 1° Away... so you spend your limited time with increasingly talented people on your individual professional path. ### Board Member @ NextRoll, Inc. (formerly AdRoll Group) Jan 2006 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area AdRoll helps thousands of agencies and brands win – at reaching customers, driving growth, and collecting/harnessing data for marketing and growth. I founded the company, learned a ton (1st time CEO), and now/still serve on the board. We became known as a retargeting platform, and remain a reasonably well-known retargeting++ platform. ### Early investor @ Independent Jan 2005 – Present | United States I advise and/or have invested in several different early stage startups. More active pre-2021. I love to meet/jam with founders to discuss product, growth, and strategy. ### Studio Operator @ Sidekicks (Midtown Doornail Inc.) Jan 2015 – Jan 2022 | United States Sidekicks is a studio/applied research lab working on voice technology. Projects released: Avocado (PlusAvocado.com) - Most AI is built for handling commands -- Avocado is built to deliver outcomes. Whether it is for teamwork or your work, voice + transcription ensures tasks get done. It's an easier, faster, simpler way to communicate and get jobs done. Bounce (Meetbounce.com) - AI Robot that empowers users to screen their calls - know who is calling and why, via an interactive software robot that gathers information from callers and can answer callers questions. The driving belief behind our projects: all knowledge workers will have a set of 'sidekicks' — their own trusty (AI) helpers — working alongside them. ### Builder @ Avocado (Voice tasks and reminders) @ Sidekicks (Midtown Doornail Inc.) Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 Avocado adds voice commands to Slack. Avocado is built for assigning different tasks to teammates quickly. It offers a faster, easier way to delegate/hand-off/collaborate on a specific task/assignment/reminder for somebody on your team... and meant for that moment of turning a free second into a productive one (in between meetings, driving in the car or walking between the office and the coffee shop). What makes Avocado unique is that it sets up an action item between you and anyone else on your team with a voice command, then tracks status and handles reminders automatically. When users want mobile/on-the-go productivity -- Avocado affords the simplicity of having task-assignment/completion integrated into work tools (Slack, email). As part of the "platform" we built individual "assists" and put them in the App Store to showcase newly achievable "voice outcomes": https://apps.apple.com/us/developer/sidekicks-inc/id1232518310 ### Builder @ Bounce (AI "bouncer" to reject robocalls) @ Sidekicks (Midtown Doornail Inc.) Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 Meet Bounce, the "AI bouncer" that helps identify your callers. You see who's calling (via enhanced caller ID) and get added protection from robocallers/spammers with live screening. Bounce hooks up EnhancedID™ for free. === FOR CONSUMERS: Bounce gets its name because it can serve as your personal "bouncer" — it is a simple, powerful way for consumers to eliminate robocalls and screen calls live using a personal AI robot. By default Bounce routes robocallers to spam and lets good calls through. When users activate Bounce, the AI automatically lets through real calls from real people that you know, and screens unknown callers. Each member contributes to a community-powered network for caller identification, privacy and protection. Bounce makes your smart phone smarter with how it answers calls. Bounce is the only platform that supports live messaging of incoming calls. Bounce treats incoming calls as part of a natural communication flow. Bounce integrates with your phone line and adds a digital admin on your existing phone number. If your phone is a business tool, having your own personalized digital admin offers enhanced control over how your network reaches you. Stay productive or just get back to work. Bounce offers plans for business owners, travelers, executives, knowledge workers (designers, engineers, marketers), families, students and consumers. Bounce enables consumers to stay ahead of database marketers. It's a smarter, tougher, better way to receive calls. ### Builder @ EnhancedID (Free caller ID powered by the network) @ Sidekicks (Midtown Doornail Inc.) Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 EnhancedID - It's Caller ID For Every Phone Number. With EnhancedID the phone number can now show the name of the person calling and/or if they are verified and by how many verifiers. Like "Yelp reviews for valid phone numbers" -- but with no need for humans to write the review. Community-powered caller ID with #'s verified by real people/users. Our team designed and built a system to crawl the web and other sources to create a list of 120M verified US business phone numbers (growing ~10% per month, re-verifying weekly). What's the value? Assume you get a call from an unknown number, now with EnhancedID - you know what business/school/organization etc is calling EVEN when they are not in your address book. ### Rolled-up Sleeves @ Office Hours Jan 2012 – Jan 2021 I'm spending time with ambitious and thoughtful founders, asking questions and helping with distribution, growth & strategy problems... in an "office hours" format ### Board Member @ Bazaarvoice Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Austin, Texas Area Nov 2017 BazaarVoice (NASDAQ: BV) announced Marlin Equity Partners would acquire the company in a take-private transaction. The deal closed Feb 2018. I was a Member of the board and the Nominating/Governance committee while BV was publicly traded. BV powers the reviews for many of the world's largest online retailers, increasing trust and safety for consumers that shop online. BV serves as a network to help brands & retailers deliver real reviews through syndication. ### having fun / tinkering @ Pale Blue Dot Inc. — Worldly Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 Reimagining how people share experiences. Built Worldly, www.worldly.com, wound down 2016. ### Vice President, Product Innovation (via acquisition) @ Deem, Inc. Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco Bay Area Deem/Rearden acquired HomeRun. ### CEO, co-founder @ HomeRun (homerun.com) Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 | San Francisco Bay Area Founder/CEO at Homerun. Recruited an all star team. Raised capital (Series A, and B). Set strategy for company, including vision for our deals platform (OfferEngine). Reached over 100 million consumers at peak. Takeaways: Competitive space. Fun times. Fast ride. Didn't anticipate our direct competitor's access to unlimited capital. Acquired by Rearden Commerce Aug 2011. ### Co-founder; Director, Distribution @ Slide Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 | San Francisco Bay Area Acquired by Google Aug 2010. "[Slide] offers people the ability to engage and have fun with one another using the relationships they've already developed on social networks like Facebook and MySpace. The social networks benefit from increased activity, advertisers benefit from an exuberant audience, and our users can just enjoy themselves (where they already like to hang out)." ### Entrepreneur-in-Residence. Co-founder. @ MRL Ventures, Inc. / Midtown Doornail Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 | San Francisco Bay Area Incubated businesses. Instrumental in launch of four Internet companies in 18 months -- of those, I was the project lead/initial CEO/COO of two. I was also responsible for building and killing 2-3 dozen "almost companies" in the same timeframe. ### Director, Venture Investments @ Clarium Capital Management Jan 2002 – Jan 2004 Led venture investment practice at Clarium Capital Management LLC. Sourced, diligence'd and executed investments into several noteworthy companies, including the seed or Series A investments of LinkedIn, GameFly, LiveOps and Ironport. Provided investment diligence and support on investments in Xoom and Friendster. ### Assistant to the CEO @ PayPal Jan 2002 – Jan 2002 | Mountain View, CA Reported to the CEO/founder/Chairman of PayPal. Worked with other members of senior management team and board on projects in corporate development, financial planning and analysis, strategic planning and investor relations. ### Consultant @ Independent Jan 2001 – Jan 2002 Consulting for consumer product and technology companies. ### Co-founder, Board Member @ Justarrive, Inc. Jan 1999 – Jan 2001 Co-founded Justarrive. A few "world's first" technologies: built integrated electronic ticketing platform for delivery and re-distribution of e-tickets. Built an online sales system and marketplace. Integrated loyalty. Mostly for sports and event tickets. Also spearheaded fundraising efforts, recruiting and consumer product design: Series A in May 2000 -- learned a lot ### Intern/Product Designer @ IDEO Jan 1998 – Jan 1999 | Palo Alto, CA ## Education ### BS in BA, Interaction Design (independently approved), English Stanford University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jaredkopf --- Source: https://flows.cv/jaredkopf JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/jaredkopf/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13