Ran Makavy is an entrepreneur in the Internet and Telecommunications industry with over 20 years of international executive leadership experience. His interests lie in building better ways to use technology to make our world better.
He has built the growth team at San Francisco-based Lyft, guided the company through its IPO, and was then the companys chief product officer and head of the ridesharing line of business. Prior to this position, he founded and served as the CEO of Snaptu, a mobile application platform that ran on virtually every type of Internet-enabled mobile phones. The company, which was backed by Sequoia Capital and Viola Ventures, was acquired by Facebook in 2011. Following the acquisition, Ran spent his first three years on the growth team of Facebook, looking at mobile and emerging market. He grew Snaptu to over 100 million active users, and started internet.org, looking at connecting the next 5 billion people to the Internet. Ran then spent a year and half running Facebook's Local and Entities teams building consumer products around places and location. His goal was to try and understand the world better through structured data.
Earlier in his career, he served as Director of Product Management of Followap, which was acquired by NeuStar in 2006.