Summary
Andy Jagoe is an angel investor and product leader in San Francisco with 11 years of hands-on experience building and scaling consumer and developer-facing products. He founded and sold multiple startups—including the world’s first group text messaging company (acquired by Skype) and a search business he guided to an eBay exit—and has led product and engineering teams from seed-stage to acquisition. Andy has invested in over 100 software startups, backing breakout fintech and wellness companies like Chipper Cash, Jeeves and Calm, and continues to advise early-stage founders on go-to-market and product strategy. His work spans hardware-enabled consumer products, decentralized analytics, and messaging platforms, reflecting a rare combination of product intuition, engineering chops, and community-building that dates back to childhood entrepreneurial ventures. He holds an MBA from Berkeley Haas and often pairs small, fast experiments with data-driven roadmaps to turn connection-focused ideas into scalable businesses.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA Economics, BA Economics at University of California, Berkeley
MBA, MBA at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business