Primary Job Title Cofounder & Chief Espresso Officer Primary Organization Weav
Location Brooklyn, New York, United States Regions Greater New York Area, East Coast, Northeastern US Gender Male
Investor Type Individual/Angel Investor Stage Seed Number of Exits
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Lars Rasmussen is a co-founder and 'Chief Espresso Officer' at Weav Music, Inc in Brooklyn, New York. Formerly, he was a director of engineer at Facebook London where he headed up the Facebook Workplace team. Formerly, he was a member of Google's technical staff, based in the Sydney office, and with his brother Jens is co-founder of
the Google Wave effort. In early 2003, the brothers co-founded a mapping start-up, Where 2 Technologies, which was acquired by Google in October of 2004. Lars joined Google and worked as one of the lead engineers in the team that turned this acquisition into Google Maps, now used by more than a billion people around the world. Lars holds a Ph.D. in theoretical computer science from the University of California at Berkeley. He has possibly the world's least developed sense of direction, and consistently types faster than he can spell.