Primary Job Title CEO & Co-founder Primary Organization Mattermost
Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Ian Tien is CEO and co-founder of Mattermost, and previously founded SpinPunch, Inc.’s indie video game business while in graduate school, growing the business to three title franchises. He was formerly VP Product at a movie streaming startup backed by Sequoia Capital, Warner Brothers and Sony Pictures. Before that, he ran product management for
Microsoft’s SkyDrive and Windows Live Photos services, and was interim lead of Hotmail. Prior, he led engineering teams for Microsoft Office in its enterprise software business across SharePoint and Business Intelligence product lines.
He holds several patents and is alumus of the University of Waterloo, where he worked at Trilogy Software during school, and the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he served as teaching assistant for Andy Grove and Myron Scholes. Ian grew up in suburban Toronto and freelanced as an illustrator before college.