Michael Sippey
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Sippey is an experienced product leader with 17 years building and scaling consumer and creator-focused platforms from startups to public web properties. He led product and growth at Medium—launching the Partner Program, metered paywall, advanced personalization, and growing membership to 700k+ paid subscribers—and later drove AI-native feature launches as VP Product at Descript. His background spans founding and exiting a consumer social startup, leading Twitter’s consumer product teams, and stepping into operator roles across gaming, media, and tooling, showing an unusual comfort shifting between product, operations, and strategy. Based in San Francisco, he teaches and advises startups and Reforge cohorts, pairing hands-on shipping experience with a knack for marrying editorial judgment and algorithmic recommendation systems.
17 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Business, MBA, Business at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of BusinessBA, English, BA, English at Colgate University
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Github Skills (3)
msysgit6
git6
zip6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
sippey/sippey.github.com
Feb 2009 - Jan 2023
Contributions:245 commits, 13 PRs, 360 pushes in 14 years 1 month
sippey/cohere-mos-streamlit
Dec 2023 - Dec 2023
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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