Summary
Ben Kubota is a serial founder and product/technology leader with 10+ years building consumer media and productivity platforms from Berlin, currently serving as Co-Founder and CT/PO at CampfireFM and Superlist. He blends hands-on engineering and product strategy—having led engineering at moviepilot, co-founded Creators Media (acquired), and run CPO/CTO roles—to ship scalable web products and grow teams. An active angel investor and venture partner, he connects startup building with early-stage capital through Expedite Ventures and past work at Cherry Ventures. He brings a thoughtful interest in data and community-driven projects (he founded omdb.org) and is exploring blockchain and tech for social impact through The LGBT Foundations. Unobtrusively, his background shows a pattern of creating and exiting media communities while staying deeply involved in product execution.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
German, English, Japanese