Harper Reed

Cofounder and CEO of 2389 Research.

• Focusing on the future of commerce and how applied AI can make commerce more excited and more robust

• Building a team of amazing people

• AI is wild

Cofounder and CEO of General Galactic Corporation.

• Build a team of amazing people to build amazing products

• Raised 10.5 million dollars in a pre-seed and see round

• Built a handful of products that helped guide users within crypto and fintech

• Shut down the company in 2023 due to regulatatory uncertainty

• Worked with Japanese and American entrepreneurs to help build bridges between the two countries

• Learned from our Japanese hosts about the culture and business practices in Japan

• Work within the various groups at Medialab

• Work with the E14 fund to help their entrepreneurs

• Helped establish and define contextual commerce and an emergent commerce function.

• Did research about commerce in South East Asia

• Helped facilitate build engineering teams and Braintree, Venmo and PayPal

• Focused and fostered diversity efforts at the Chicago office of Braintree and PayPal

• Built a platform that enabled retailers to launch and support mobile buying apps.

• Hired amazing team.

• Launched beautiful and highly converting apps into the iOS app store

• Sold company in late 2015 to PayPal, Inc

• Hired world class technology team to build the technology platform for the reelection campaign.

• Worked with team to help define and architect the solutions that helped reelect the president.

• Worked with professional services department to help clients find the right solution.

• Worked with executive staff to help define better customer experience

• Represented Rackspace at conferences and small events.

• Acted as technology leader for a company of ~60 people with revenue of ~20-30M

• Worked in a close team to design, execute and manage community websites

• Lead the technology to support Threadless.com growth.

• Grew Threadless.com from 2 barely functioning servers to over 45 devices.

• Helped bridge the gap between the internet and reality with 2 retail stores.

• Spoke about our technology at various events and conference, representing skinnyCorp and the Threadless vision.

• Managed a small team of engineers to handle the day to day maintenance and projects.

• Worked with Seth Godin and an amazing team to help build an design the initial version of Squidoo.

• Helped define initial vision and technology for Squidoo before core staff was hired

• Lead technologist and technical liaison to account management and creative staff.

• Lead architect for client web applications. Worked with clients Airtran.com, Careerbuilder.com, and Barton Beers. (PHP, MYSQL, LINUX)

• Lead engineer on full life cycle of Super Bowl viral campaign, Yeknominc.com. (PHP, MYSQL, LINUX)

• Managed legacy operations for client web application management. (Perl, Navitaire SkyLights, JAVA)

• Lead development staff and managed offshore engineering team. Worked to develop and maintain World Book Publishing's client facing web presence. Helped usher in new technology and standards - moving from AIX, DB2 on IBM hardware to Solaris, Oracle on Sun Hardware. Introduced open source technology and solution. (Solaris, JAVA, DB2, AIX, XML)

• Wrote desktop content management utilities to aid in management of XML content by non-technical staff. (C#, PHP)

• Developed practices to insure content accessibility and data portability. (JAVA, XML, XSLT, C#, DB2)

• Helped develop a solid software security plan. Worked with system engineers to architect a secure production environment. Deployed production servers using open source software to meet budget constraints. (LINUX, NMAP, NESSUS, SOLARIS, AIX)