About

AboutWriting

I like to build products that use technology to connect people and information, and make everyday life more fun and efficient.

I live in New York City and grew up in Miami.

I founded FirstMate, a startup that builds consumer-facing crypto products. We helped people who make NFTs have closer and more direct relationships with their collectors by making their own storefronts (opens in a new tab) on their own domains. More recently, we've been making Skill Issue (opens in a new tab), a social way to speculate on crypto with a live audience.

Before that, I was a product manager at Instagram (and FB/Meta) in New York for seven years, where I most recently led product for Instagram's consumer Feed, launching products that made Instagram's Feed more interesting (opens in a new tab) via machine learning and ranking, giving people more control (opens in a new tab), and making online social communication more comfortable and private (opens in a new tab) by hiding like counts.

Before that I worked at Facebook in Menlo Park, where I joined in 2014 as a Rotational Product Manager; and then worked on Facebook's News Feed, Ads, and Events products.

I majored in Computer Science at Brown.

jacob frantzRSS