Jeff Grimes
Head Of Live Events Product at Perplexity
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Grimes is a product leader and founder with 11 years of experience building consumer experiences across live events, sports, and finance; he currently heads Live Events Product at Perplexity to make the platform the go-to destination for real-time event coverage. Previously he co-founded Shades and served as CEO/CPO, and earlier spent seven years at Google rising to Group Product Manager where he scaled feed monetization, ad products, and event coverage by orders of magnitude. He also backed and advised early-stage startups as a Sequoia Scout, writing 21 checks and remaining an active angel investor. Comfortable with both hands-on product work and company-building, Jeff combines technical roots from dual CS and Economics degrees at Penn with a knack for turning ephemeral cultural moments into durable product experiences. An early maker—shipping apps and games in college and founding a photography e-commerce business at 12—he brings entrepreneurial instincts and operational rigor to launching large-scale consumer features.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Crystal Springs Uplands SchoolDual degree through Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology (aka M&T) B.S. Computer Science from Engineering School B.S. Economics/Management from Wharton, Dual degree through Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology (aka M&T) B.S. Computer Science from Engineering School B.S. Economics/Management from Wharton at University of Pennsylvania
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Github Skills (12)
intervals9
xcode9
python7
jekyll7
git6
objective-c6
ios6
cocoa-touch6
admob6
netbeans6
ios-framework6
dyld6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
bellsociety/bellsociety.com_old
Aug 2014 - Apr 2015
Homepage for Bell Society
Contributions:151 commits, 1 PR, 32 pushes in 7 months
pythonjekyllbell
Collectipro/samples
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
Contributions:32 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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