Bill Bliss
Venture Partner at Greatscale Ventures
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBill Bliss is a seasoned software leader and venture partner with a multi-decade track record spanning founding roles at Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Teams, and the platform architecture behind the Teams developer ecosystem. He previously led search and recommendations at Myspace, delivering a faster internal search on SOLR and a scalable content recommendation platform that underpinned Myspace’s metadata and pages. As a long-tenured Microsoft executive, he steered MSN Search toward global scale and later held senior product leadership roles across Windows search and user interfaces. Currently at GreatScale Ventures, he guides portfolio companies such as Volv.AI, applying his expertise in product strategy, platform thinking, and developer ecosystems to early-stage founders. He is based in Seattle, WA, and holds a BS from Northwestern University, merging entrepreneurial grit with deep technical stewardship.
9 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
BS, BS at Northwestern University
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Github Skills (154)
devrel10
bots10
invoke10
rest-api10
msal10
collaboration10
api10
rest10
powershell10
azure-ad-b2c10
graph10
inline10
skype10
adapter10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
OfficeDev/msteams-samples-outgoing-webhook-nodejs
Dec 2017 - Jul 2019
A very simple example of an "Outgoing webhook" server that echoes whatever is sent to it
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 8 months
microsoft-teamswebhook-serverwebhookoffice365webhooks
MicrosoftDocs/OfficeDocs-AppCompliance
Apr 2019 - May 2019
Content for Office app certification and compliance
Contributions:27 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 19 days
for-officecertificationcompliancemvldocsnoncore
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