Jesse Bentert
Director Of Product at Duolingo
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJesse Bentert is a product leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling consumer marketplaces and payments products to millions of users. He started as one of Venmo’s first engineers, helped grow it to over 5 million active users and $20B in payments, and later founded Venmo’s product organization. As a longtime director-level PM, he has led marketplace and growth teams at Teachers Pay Teachers, Instacart, and now Duolingo, blending hands-on engineering roots with strategic product leadership. He specializes in creating data-informed, user-focused teams that drive viral growth, monetization, and platform engagement. Based in New York, Jesse combines startup scrappiness with proven cross-functional execution across acquisitions and industry recognition. A former Yankees programming intern turned product director, he brings an uncommon mix of technical depth and marketplace intuition.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Columbia Engineering
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Github contributions (5)
venmo/app-switch-android
Sep 2011 - Nov 2012
Contributions:31 commits in 1 year 2 months
jrb2137/puzzles1
Aug 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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