Ben Faw
Partner at Dynamism Capital
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Faw is a partner at Dynamism Capital and a serial founder and operator who has built and sold large commerce businesses, most notably co-founding BestReviews which reached 250M users and drove over $1B in e-commerce sales before exits to Tribune Publishing and Nexstar. He combines deep hands-on experience in digital marketing, product growth, and monetization with board-level strategic work for public and private retailers and tech-enabled commerce companies. As Co-Founder of AdVon Commerce he leverages proprietary software to scale affiliate and e-commerce products, and he advises Harvard Business School and multiple startups on entrepreneurship, M&A, and GTM strategy. Ben’s background blends military leadership as a West Point graduate and Army officer with an HBS MBA, a combination that informs his bias for action and operational rigor. He’s a published thinker on digital strategy and has a practical track record of turning content and product into profitable, scalable businesses. An uncommonly consistent early entrepreneur, he started and sold cash-flow positive service businesses in high school—evidence of his long-running founder’s instinct.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Economics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Economics at United States Military Academy at West PointRanger Tab, Ranger Tab at United States Army Ranger SchoolMBA, MBA at Harvard Business School
Github Skills (69)
syntax-highlighting10
python9
chat9
webrtc9
slack9
javascript8
collaboration8
react8
gnuradio8
utility8
npm8
vendor8
probot8
mongodb8
nodejs8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
fyngyrz/NWS-Temperature
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:86 commits, 84 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
fyngyrz/aa_macro
Jul 2015 - Jul 2022
Contributions:328 commits, 2 PRs, 336 pushes in 7 years 1 month
pythonmacro
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