Caffeine, a live social-broadcasting startup, has hired two senior executives: former Apple TV executive Jen Folse as VP of product and Michelle Wagner, previously head of Hr at Evernote, as senior VP of people and places.
Caffeine was founded in April 2016 by former Apple TV designers Ben Keighran and Sam Roberts. The startup has raised $46 million in funding led by Silicon Valley Vc firms Andreessen Horowitz and Greylock Partners. The company is angling to take on other live-streaming services including Amazon’s Twitch, YouTube and Facebook.
Folse spent more than eight years at Apple, most recently served as design lead for Apple TV, a position she held since 2016. She first joined Apple as a senior design producer in May 2010, after working as an engineer for both Finesse Solutions and Genentech.
“I worked with Jen for years at Apple,” Keighran, CEO of Caffeine, said in a statement. “She is a phenomenal...
Caffeine was founded in April 2016 by former Apple TV designers Ben Keighran and Sam Roberts. The startup has raised $46 million in funding led by Silicon Valley Vc firms Andreessen Horowitz and Greylock Partners. The company is angling to take on other live-streaming services including Amazon’s Twitch, YouTube and Facebook.
Folse spent more than eight years at Apple, most recently served as design lead for Apple TV, a position she held since 2016. She first joined Apple as a senior design producer in May 2010, after working as an engineer for both Finesse Solutions and Genentech.
“I worked with Jen for years at Apple,” Keighran, CEO of Caffeine, said in a statement. “She is a phenomenal...
- 8/21/2018
- by Todd Spangler
- Variety Film + TV
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