Ryan FullerFounder

United States - Greater Seattle Area

20+ year tech veteran. Obsessed with the idea of technology as the best solution to the world's biggest problems and annoyed that it seems to be creating new ones. Worked at 4 startups, 1 growth stage and 1 tech giant. Founder, engineer, PM, sales guy, corporate exec and CEO.

I started my first business when I was 14 and have been hooked on being an entrepreneur ever since. I’ve never been big into planning too far into the future. In part, this has allowed me to jump on interesting opportunities whenever they happen to present themselves even if they are quite new and different than what I’ve done previously. It’s led to an erratic path, which has had its fair share of failures and dead-ends, but it’s rarely been boring and a big part of the fun is not knowing where it might lead next. At various times I’ve identified as a:
• new kid at school (frequently)
• tennis player
• improvisational comedian
• computer systems engineer
• software engineer
• engineering manager
• product manager
• data and analytics devotee
• member of an amazing team
• leadership, management and culture enthusiast
• the demo guy
• born leader
• failed leader eager to avoid any future leadership responsibility
• painter
• Reiki master (really, this happened, I have the certificate)
• life coach
• pre-sales guy
• MBA candidate
• musical comedy director
• strategy consultant
• husband
• South American nomad and struggling spanish student
• father
• founder, CEO and people analytics pioneer
• guy with his picture in the New York Times and his company on the front page of the Wall Street Journal
• frequent HBR author
• 40 under 40 honoree
• regular keynote speaker
• failed violin student
• start-up advisor and investor
• mega-tech co executive
• new guitar player
• 2nd time co-founder

Nowadays I identify as a combination of all of these things. I’m working to weave them all together in the early stages of launching a new company and trying to leverage all of the things I’ve learned along the way to build something truly worthwhile.