Blaine Vess
Co-Founder at Bearing North
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBlaine Vess is a serial founder and investor with 8+ years of active entrepreneurial experience and a 20+ year history of building product-led businesses from dorm-room code to multimillion-dollar exits. He co-founded Student Brands as a college freshman, scaling it to $100M+ in profitable revenue and a $58.5M acquisition by Barnes & Noble Education, and later led Solve through YC S17 to acquisition by Blacklane. Today he runs Immeasurable, a family office investing across the US, Latin America, Southeast Asia, and China, and leads Freedom Fighter Films, producing award‑recognized documentaries that marry storytelling with social impact. His hands-on early career as a self-taught PHP/MySQL developer and internet marketing consultant informs a pragmatic blend of technical fluency, growth focus, and operational rigor. Known for repeatedly starting new ideas (and often getting sidetracked by better ones), he combines builder’s curiosity with a disciplined track record of scaling teams and products globally. Based in Los Angeles, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a growing venture and creative portfolio that spans tech, film, and human rights.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Selected for a two-year fellowship for venture capital investors focused on investing, leadership development, and peer learning., Selected for a two-year fellowship for venture capital investors focused on investing, leadership development, and peer learning. at Kauffman Fellows, Class 25Hudson Coach Certification, Hudson Coach Certification at Hudson InstituteBachelor of Science, Marketing, Bachelor of Science, Marketing at San José State UniversityThe Making of a Modern Elder, The Making of a Modern Elder at Modern Elder AcademyCo-founder of Solve (S17). Completed Y Combinator’s accelerator program prior to the company’s acquisition by Blacklane., Co-founder of Solve (S17). Completed Y Combinator’s accelerator program prior to the company’s acquisition by Blacklane. at Y Combinator
Github Skills (36)
py2exe10
widgets10
pyinstaller10
elm10
py2app10
bundle9
user-interface9
python9
package9
rust9
twitter7
audio7
tumblr5
generic-associated-types5
rpg5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
vess-dev/Shenzhen-Solutions
Jul 2019 - Aug 2023
Contributions:19 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 1 month
vess-dev/Advent-of-Code
Dec 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:179 commits, 359 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years
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