3x founder

Jakob Wilkenson

Co-Founder @Else. Idea → prototype → live user test. All done in Else with no engineering required.

Co-founder

Else· Speedrun 003 🇺🇸 Oakland, California, United States

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2024Co-founder· Else

Founder · since 2013

Company

Else

Role

Co-Founder & CTO

current

Stage

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no public source

Raised

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no public source

Based

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Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

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Else

Build something Else

Speedrun 003

Experience

Career

Else
Co-founder
Co-Founder & CTO · 2024 – Present
2024
Career Break
Full-time parenting · 2024
2024
Unity
GM - Create Anywhere · 2023 – 2024
2023
Parsec
VP Of Engineering & Product · New York, United States · 2020 – 2023
2020
Banter App Inc
Founder
CEO · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area · 2017 – 2020
2017
Awear, Inc.
Founder
CEO · San Francisco Bay Area · 2013 – 2017
2013
GREE, Inc.
VP of Product · San Francisco Bay Area · 2011 – 2012
2011
OpenFeint
VP of Product · 2010 – 2011
2010
OpenFeint
VP of Engineering · 2009 – 2010
2009
OpenFeint
Programmer & first employee · 2008 – 2009
2008
Double Fine Productions
Gameplay Programmer · 2007 – 2008
2007
Stormfront studios
Programmer · 2005 – 2007
2005

Bio

Most of my career has been in startups, it's my happy place. Most recently I was GM of a business unit at Unity after joining through the Parsec acquisition. I'm excited to be back in the trenches again!