About Promoted
We sort marketplace search results and promote the best listings at the top to increase revenue. We specialize in optimizing scaled marketplaces with top engineering teams.
Our Story
Andrew was from
Meta. Dan was from
Google. We met at
Pinterest, where we built Pinterest ads together. We realized that we could unify ideas from ads and search engineering to make all commercial media better.
We started Promoted to match every buyer with every seller across every app. We joined
Y Combinator in Winter 2021 and Y Combinator Continuity in Winter 2022.
Our Team
We are ads engineers from Meta and Google, and we’ve built this before together.
Andrew Yates
Chief Executive Officer
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Dan Hill
Chief Technology Officer
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Angela Chang
Head of Operations
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Xingcan Cui
Software Engineer
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Jun Sun
Software Engineer
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Elsa Birch-Morgan
Software Engineer
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James Hill
Software Engineer
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Kevin Grandon
Software Engineer
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Vlad Artamonov
Site Reliability Engineer
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Scott McMaster
Software Engineer
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Our Values
Solve for Win-Win
True value happens when all sides of a transaction are satisfied. We solve for win-win in our optimization systems, with our partners, and in our company.
Prove Value
With earnestness, sincerity, and accountability, we relentlessly focus on proving value. We add complexity because it better matches buyers with sellers and grows marketplaces faster.
Build Trust
All stakeholders must believe that Promoted works for them. We earn trust by consistently delivering intelligible value and empowering users with meaningful control over their own businesses.