Dan Sears

Founder Precode OS | Builder of AI-Native Platforms & Marketplaces | 17 Years of Applied AI (ML, NLP, GenAI, Agentic AI) | $750M+ Attributable Revenue | GTM & Ecosystem Leader | Ex-Microsoft, eBay, CapitalOne

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Recodeex-University of Washingtonex-T-Mobile

I'm a high rate-of-learning executive in high rate-of-change environments, often at the pioneering stage (Series A-D) of frontier tech (AI: LLM, ML, NLP, etc). My entire career reflects this.

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I am very good at solving for PMF and starting, building, and commercializing high-growth enterprise product / platform businesses. My 15 years of operationalizing and commercializing AI capabilities, data platforms and marketplace products span a wide swath: LLM in SportsTech, ML in HealthTech, NLP (Conversational AI), Recommendation Systems for Marketplaces, Expert Systems, Data Quality in Health, Data Science, Data Management in FinTech, I have a strong commercial orientation with 25 years of P&L ownership in pre-IPO start-ups, corporate enterprises and product and data strategy consulting practices. I am entrepreneurial and technically-adept with Product, Engineering, Data, Partnership Ecosystem, and Growth Team athletics and performance were woven across my life; I played 6 different sports in S. and College. Today, I move a little slower but still enjoy mountain running, freediving, and skiing with RESULTSMy contributions, collaborations, and leadership have resulted in -Product: 3 pioneering products, 5 technology and data platforms, 3 new ventures, 2 start-ups, 1 joint venture in Japan-Growth & GTM: 4 GTM programs, $700M+ in attributable revenue-Ecosystem: 20+ strategic Big Tech alliances, 100+ channel partnerships, 50+ technical alliances and OEM partnerships𝗖𝗟𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗦70+ executive-level strategic client engagements in the F500: Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon, com, Snowflake, Capital One, PayPal, eBay, Cisco, GSK, T-Mobile, Xerox Parc, F5, Providence Health, Weyerhaeuser, etc.

Career TimelineNOW → PAST

GTM Index

  1. RECODEJOB
    1. Founder & Principal Advisor
      3Y 7M
  2. SIDEBARJOB
    1. Founding Member
      1Y 3M
  3. RUNTALUS (AI-NATIVE CONSUMER MARKETPLACE)JOB
    1. Founder
      9M
  4. PRECODE OSJOB
    1. Founder
      10M
  5. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONJOB
    1. Instructor - Applied AI fo…
      3M
  6. VOLUNTEERMATCHJOB
    1. Chief Product Officer & Ch…
      5M
  7. SPUR REPLYJOB
    1. Managing Dir
      8M
  8. SIAJOB
    1. Managing Dir
      3Y 3M
  9. T-MOBILEJOB
    1. New Venture - API Platform…
      5M
  10. PARCJOB
    1. New Venture - A.I. Asset C…
      5M

Time in market 8Y 7MOpen 4Closed 6Stints 10

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  1. Job: University of Washington — Instructor - Applied AI for Product Management · 2025-09 – 2025-12
  2. Job: Recode — Founder & Principal Advisor · 2023-01 – present
  3. Job: T-Mobile — New Venture - API Platform, GTM & Partnership Strategy - Identity for Fraud Protection · 2020-09 – 2021-02
  4. Job: PARC — New Venture - A.I. Asset Commercialization & GTM Strategy - Office of CTO · 2020-08 – 2021-01
  5. Job: Spur Reply — Managing Director / GM - Data Science, AI & Engineering · 2021-05 – 2022-01
  6. Job: Sidebar — Founding Member · 2025-05 – present
  7. Job: RunTalus (AI-Native Consumer Marketplace) — Founder · 2025-11 – present
  8. Job: VolunteerMatch — Chief Product Officer & Chief Growth Officer · 2022-07 – 2022-12
  9. Job: Precode OS — Founder · 2025-10 – present
  10. Job: Sia — Managing Director / GM - Data & AI · 2018-01 – 2021-04

Skills

SalesforceSoftware DevelopmentVibe CodingOperating SystemsOnline MarketplaceGenerative AIData ScienceConversational AIStrategic LeadershipLeadership DevelopmentPMFExecutive CoachingStart-up LeadershipExecutive ManagementExecutive LeadershipBusiness Case DevelopmentComputer VisionBusiness Portfolio ManagementHuman-in-the-Loop Machine LearningEntrepreneurshipNatural Language Processing (NLP)

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