Ran Makavy

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Ran Makavy is an entrepreneur in the Internet and Telecommunications industry with over 20 years of international executive leadership experience. His interests lie in building better ways to use technology to make our world better. He has built the growth team at San Francisco-based Lyft, guided the company through its IPO, and was then the companys chief product officer and head of the ridesharing line of business. Prior to this position, he founded and served as the CEO of Snaptu, a mobile application platform that ran on virtually every type of Internet-enabled mobile phones. The company, which was backed by Sequoia Capital and Viola Ventures, was acquired by Facebook in 2011. Following the acquisition, Ran spent his first three years on the growth team of Facebook, looking at mobile and emerging market. He grew Snaptu to over 100 million active users, and started internet.org, looking at connecting the next 5 billion people to the Internet. Ran then spent a year and half running Facebook's Local and Entities teams building consumer products around places and location. His goal was to try and understand the world better through structured data. Earlier in his career, he served as Director of Product Management of Followap, which was acquired by NeuStar in 2006.

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Jul 27, 2021 · progressivegrocer.com

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Homesome Appoints Ran Makavy to Board of Directors

Homesome, an e-commerce platform for independent grocery stores, has appointed Ran Makavy to its board of directors. Makavy is the founder of Snaptu, which was acquired by Facebook in 2011, and a former executive at Lyft. He has over 20 years of leadership experience in the internet and on-demand industry. Homesomes platform, which rolled out in June 2018, uses proprietary automation and innovative technology to enable two-week onboarding and operational success for stores on the new digital channel. The company has seen rapid growth since the platforms launch.

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Apr 4, 2016 · www.vox.com

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Lyft Taps Snaptu Founder Who Helped Create Internet.org as VP of Growth

Ran Makavy, the founder of Snaptu and former Facebook employee, has joined Lyft as the vice president of a new growth team. Makavys team will focus on improving the efficiency of Lyfts driver and rider onboarding process. He plans to hire about 100 people by the end of the year to build a robust, cross-functional team. While Lyft currently operates only in the U.S., the company has partnerships with international companies and is part of a larger global alliance. Makavys background makes him suited to lead Lyfts expansion into emerging and international markets, although that wont be his primary focus initially.

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Feb 3, 2014 · www.haaretz.com

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The Israeli at the heart of Facebook's affordable Internet drive

Facebooks acquisition of Snaptu and Onavo allowed them to establish a foothold in the Israeli tech industry and expand their research and development efforts. The acquisition of Snaptu led to layoffs for most employees, while the programmers were transferred to Facebooks California headquarters. The acquisition of Onavo for over $100 million helped Facebook address infrastructure bottlenecks and reduce the cost of web-surfing on mobile phones. Facebooks R&D center in Israel is working on the Internet.org project and further developing Onavos product line. The company aims to provide affordable Internet access to billions of people, particularly in emerging markets where cheap Android phones are becoming more popular.

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