Jonathan Tien
Angel Investor at Various Startups
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Tien is a product leader and angel investor with 14 years of experience scaling advertiser platforms and monetization products, most recently heading multiple Ads teams at Reddit. He has driven end-to-end advertiser experience, campaign management, reporting, Ads API, billing, and SMB growth initiatives across fast-growing ad businesses and has a background in hands-on engineering from his UC Berkeley CS degree. At Reddit he combined product strategy with operational execution—overseeing ad review, sales tools, generative AI bets, and platform design systems—to support rapid revenue growth. Jonathan also invests in deep-technology startups (e.g., Figure AI, Whisper Aero, Varda) and brings operator insight to early-stage founders. Based in New York, he balances strategic leadership with a pragmatic, data-informed approach to product and platform buildouts.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleySaratoga High School
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
1,426reputation
554kreached
7answers
5questions
Github Skills (16)
django-framework9
python7
git6
listview6
test-data6
active-directory6
webassembly6
asp-net-mvc6
notification-center6
spotify6
django6
webforms6
bootstrap4
javascript3
macos3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ricefield/hymnalAPI
Oct 2012 - Jan 2013
Contributions:36 commits, 1 comment in 2 months
attendanceproject/xbdash
Apr 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 3 years
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