Professional Experience
Marc Hoag Law
Principal •May 2023 - Present
A boutique law practice focused on AI and tech startups.
Future Perfect News
Founder •October 2022 - Present
Future Perfect is a daily morning newsletter summarizing the top news in AI, climate change, and autonomous/electric vehicles, in just 3 minutes.
Career Break
Full-time parenting •August 2021 - May 2022
Founders Network
Chair, Mobility Initiative & Director, Boston Chapter •December 2020 - February 2023
The Founders Network Mobility Initiative was launched in 2020 to offer a centralized forum for founders tackling the mobility space. This includes startups from micro-mobility to connected autonomous electric vehicles and everything in between. From autonomous trucking, agriculture and warehousing, real estate and construction, and urban space and insurance markets, these industries are all ripe for disruption.
Qibus
Advisor •December 2020 - Present
Invited to join early teleoperations startup advisory board providing industry expertise and guidance on company deployment strategy; marketing; branding; pitch decks; investor relations.
Hoag+Co is now Motiv
Senior Consultant •October 2019 - August 2021
Founded an autonomous vehicle / smart mobility consultancy for startups, OEMs, and T1 suppliers with several PhDs and other academics in Europe. Provided services including startup advisory; investor relations; testing and deployment strategy; government relations; marketing & PR. Handled all out-bound sales, built/managed website.
Autonomous Cars with Marc Hoag
Podcast Producer •February 2018 - May 2023
Single-handedly built a twice-weekly podcast and supporting website with a focus on the autonomous vehicle space. Organically grew to 10K listens per month, 4.7 stars on Apple Podcasts, and the first organic result on Google for “autonomous cars podcasts.” Interviewed many leading players in the AV space including CEOs, CTOs, academics, lawyers, and more. Was in turn invited to speak at numerous events, podcasts, and to be a panel moderator including CES 2019 for HERE Technologies.
Twibble
Product Manager •October 2014 - April 2019
Side project that I single-handedly spun out from Venturocket; partnered with offshore dev team to further develop. Built external logged-out website (HTML/CSS/JS). Used Optimizely to A/B test and perform funnel analytics to grow new user conversion by 2x. Personally landed big international clients including BMW, Pando, Mother Jones, RTBF, Sveriges Radio. Designed Twitter hashtag-testing tool and sister site Hashtest.io; self-taught basic Chrome extension development to build an iframe version of tool, grew to 10K+ installs and 4 stars. Engaged all customer support tickets. Designed tool to auto-mention top influencers on Twitter. Developed growth hack that more than 10x’d site traffic.
Venturocket, Inc.
Product Manager •August 2010 - October 2014
Designed AdWords-type bidding platform for matching jobs/talent; drafted patent. Raised Series A and founded startup. Hired and managed 2 engineers + 1 designer while wearing the hats of product manager, product marketing manager, business development/sales, and customer support. Designed, led product vision and roadmap. Handled all outbound sales and customer support. Used Optimizely to A/B test improvements to new user conversion, new features, etc. Designed growth hack landing on #1 organic Google result. Designed, developed Crowd Vitae, a “Quora for résumé feedback.” Spun out internal RSS-to-Twitter tool that became Twibble.
Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP
Summer Associate •June 2007 - July 2007
Global law firm- Prepared term sheets and LLC formation documents- Researched and created presentation for senior partner at World Financial Symposium- Drafted essays for senior partner
Sheppard-Uziel Law Firm
Legal Intern •May 2006 - July 2006
Landlord/tenant law firm- Conducted legal research, wrote memos on landlord/tenant personal injury issues- Drafted client letters, briefs, complaints, discovery packages- Participated in depositions, arbitrations
Sheppard-Uziel Law Firm
Legal Intern •April 2005 - July 2005
Landlord/tenant law firm- Conducted legal research, wrote memos on landlord/tenant personal injury issues- Drafted client letters, briefs, complaints, discovery packages- Participated in depositions, arbitrations
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