Chris Messina
General Partner at Ride Home Fund, Llc
Emeryville, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Messina is a product and user-experience leader with 18 years shaping social technologies, startups, and developer ecosystems—from inventing the hashtag to designing Google’s developer brand and Google+ publisher platform. Now a General Partner at Ride Home Fund, he blends hands-on design sensibility with operator and founder experience (co‑founder of Molly, YC W'18) to help early-stage teams scale product-market fit. Known for sparking movements—BarCamp, coworking in SF, and Firefox’s grassroots campaign—he combines cultural impact with pragmatic product execution. A frequent conference speaker and media source, he also carries a creative arts foundation (BFA, Carnegie Mellon) that informs his interdisciplinary approach to product strategy.
18 years of coding experience
Accelerator, Accelerator at Y CombinatorBFA, BFA at Carnegie Mellon University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
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linux10
activitypub10
mastodon10
swift10
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alfred-workflow10
raycast10
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Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
chrismessina/extensions
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
Everything you need to extend Raycast.
Contributions:2 PRs, 55 pushes, 23 branches in 1 year 2 months
chrismessina/alfred-github-toolkit
Jun 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 9 commits, 7 pushes in 10 months
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