Roy Bahat
Head at Bloomberg Beta
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRoy Bahat is a venture leader and educator focused on reinventing how work gets done, currently leading Bloomberg Beta where he invests in the future of work and AI-driven companies. With a restless, cross-sector background spanning startups, media, city government, and academia, he blends operator experience (co-founding OUYA, leading IGN) with policy influence (Aspen Business Roundtable, California commission on the future of work). He runs an unusually transparent, founder-first VC operation and teaches at Berkeley Haas to stay close to emerging talent and ideas. Known for candid self-reflection and a taste for experiments—open-sourcing his fund’s playbook and measuring investor success by founder ratings—he pairs intellectual curiosity with pragmatic, hands-on leadership. Unusual detail: he types 88 wpm, plays social deduction games, and admits to a long list of half-started side projects, signaling creative energy beyond conventional résumés.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Accidentally placed in a special class for ESL students, entire first grade. (My parents thought it was Spanish immersion.) Developed thing for Menudo: https://twitter.com/roybahat/status/1257439668875993096, Accidentally placed in a special class for ESL students, entire first grade. (My parents thought it was Spanish immersion.) Developed thing for Menudo: https://twitter.com/roybahat/status/1257439668875993096 at P.S. 87Lived in Hungary for second half of sophomore year -- failed to learn any Hungarian beyond pleasantries and swear words
Tried, unsuccessfuly, to make U.S. Physics Olympiad team, Lived in Hungary for second half of sophomore year -- failed to learn any Hungarian beyond pleasantries and swear words
Tried, unsuccessfuly, to make U.S. Physics Olympiad team at Stuyvesant High SchoolM.Phil., Economics, M.Phil., Economics at University of OxfordSuccessfully ranked first in my class alphabetically by last name, so became the school's first graduate ever, Successfully ranked first in my class alphabetically by last name, so became the school's first graduate ever at Abraham Joshua Heschel SchoolA.B., Social Studies (sic), A.B., Social Studies (sic) at Harvard University
Github Skills (21)
bloomberg10
javascript10
sec10
css10
npm-package10
seed9
financial-data9
finance9
static-site9
react9
netlify-cms9
jamstack8
headless-cms8
decap-cms8
cms8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Bloomberg-Beta/Manual
Sep 2013 - Oct 2022
You were probably looking for our website... this is it. We moved our website here, so you can see the insides of how we work.
Contributions:1 review, 239 commits, 51 PRs in 9 years 2 months
cssjavascripthow-we-work
roybahat/public
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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