Vatsal B.Founder

United States - Los Altos, California

I am a builder at heart. I have served as an executive leading product and engineering teams in creating operating systems, video games, virtual reality, and cloud services for the consumer (B2C) and businesses (B2B) customers. The products I have helped create are used by billions of customers and have cumulatively generated 10s of billions of USD value. I enjoy driving a culture of driving results for customers, first principles thinking, and empowering the builders to do their best work.

Most recently, I was the Chief Product/Technology Officer at Skillz (SKLZ), leading the product and engineering teams to improve revenue through Machine Learning optimization and new features and launching cloud gaming. I also recruited several executives to join Skillz including CTO and multiple Vice Presidents.

Before Skillz, I was General Manager at Amazon Web Services, leading several technology teams in gaming, 3D, and edge applications. My teams launched the Open 3D engine initiative, three new cloud services for building and scaling 3D simulations and games.

Prior to AWS, I was part of the product management team at Facebook, which launched the industry’s first consumer Virtual Reality platform, Oculus. I led the creation of an Oculus App Store ($1.5B in cumulative revenues), content publishing services, and platform growth teams. Before that, I was a General Manager leading product and engineering teams in online dating and video games ($150M+ ARR). The early part of my career was spent doing several engineering and product roles at Microsoft, building operating systems.

I have spoken at numerous gaming and cloud technology industry conferences, including Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Game Developer Conferences, G-star, and Real Vision Television.

Specialties: General Management, Product Management, Product development, Growth Marketing, Pricing, Software Development, 3D, Real-time applications, Cloud, Games, Social media, App Economy, Operating systems, Infrastructure as a service, Platform as a service, SaaS, Simulation, On-demand, Pay as you go, Free to play, and Subscriptions business models.