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dotBen

7,645 karmajoined July 27, 2008On HN

Hi, I'm Ben Metcalfe (aka @dotBen) - venture capitalist (Monochrome Capital, monochrome.vc), startup founder (WP Engine), former engineer (BBC, MySpace), former product manager (Uber, WP Engine).

Before I moved to the dark-side of VC, I built + ran Uber's Public Policy Product & Technology division, which was a crazy and eye-opening experience going from ~1000 worldwide to 6000+ people when I left.

I am also one of the two founders of WP Engine (http://wpengine.com) but have not worked there since 2014, views are just my own, etc.

A long time ago I helped build the BBC News Website as a software engineer, back when Objective C was a server-side language :). I went on to design and run the BBC's developer platform and later I was Director of Engineering for MySpace's Developer Platform - back when MySpace was a thing, I promise.

Personal site: http://benmetcalfe.com/

You can email me at: hn AT benmetcalfe DOT com

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