Kite

United States - California

• 11/04/2023
• Unknown
• $200,000,000

We love building things that didn’t exist before.

At Kite, we’re reimagining commerce beyond the legacy systems and supply chains that have made it next to impossible for entrepreneurs to grow products into successful brands.

So we’re building a new foundation—an efficient and intelligent platform, from the ground up—and we’re looking for the right set of people to help us build it.

Building something brand new requires a culture that supports both the freedom and discipline to inspire big breakthroughs.

We’re not just challenging the conventions of commerce, we’re challenging every aspect of the company we’re building. Challenging ourselves to create a dynamic work environment that we’re all excited to be a part of. One that empowers people in all of the right ways, built on authorship, trust, and enthusiasm for creating something special together.

We care deeply about diversity, equity and inclusion. It is an expectation of every team member at Kite—how we recruit, hire, support career development, and how we collaborate across teams to enable team members to show up as their whole selves.

Our collective success is of course, important, but also our individual successes—all of the things that keep us engaged, inspired, balanced, and filled with a sense of purpose.

We’re here to do the best work of our lives. If we get this right, we may just change the wheels of consumer product commerce. Not just “faster and cheaper”, but smarter, better, and for everybody—not just the big guys.

Inspired by a good challenge? Come build with us: join@kite.co

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Rob SolomonFounder

United States - Redwood City, California

Marketplace + Consumer Internet executive and investor with 20 years of experience, including CEO, President/COO, general management, business operations, product management, product development, business development, M&A, strategy and launching new brands.

Previously served as, Chairman & CEO at GoFundMe; Venture Partner at Accel Partners; President & COO at Groupon responsible for Sales, Marketing, Business Development, Operations & International; Venture Partner at Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV), one of the largest and most successful growth equity tech-focused VC firms with $12 billion under management.

Early stage investor In Slack, Instawork, Uplift, UnifySquare, Okra, Sote, EDO, Pludo, Curbside, Dwellable, Pullstring, Bloomspot, Lore Online, etc.

Previously, served as the President and CEO of SIDESTEP, the web's first real-time vertical search engine in the travel category. Led successful turnaround and merger with KAYAK.

Prior to SideStep, served in multiple executive management roles at YAHOO including Senior Vice President, Commerce and Vice President/General Manager of the Yahoo Shopping Group responsible for Yahoo's Shopping, Travel, Auctions, Classifieds, Real Estate, E-Commerce Hosting and Vertical Product Search businesses.

Other roles included product management and marketing at Electronic Arts, Cendant, Golfweb (funded by Redpoint), and Zaplet (funded by Kleiner- Perkins).

Rob also competed at a high level in water polo earning All-America honors at UC Berkeley and was a member of two NCAA national championship teams.

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/robsolomon/