Ben Blumenfeld is the managing partner of Designer Fund where he invests in startups that value design including Stripe, Notion, Linear, Gusto, Omada Health, and Framer.<\/p>\n
Before founding Designer Fund, Ben was a design lead and design manager at Facebook. During his more than 5 years there, Ben helped build products for nearly a billion people including Facebook Platform and Facebook Timeline. He also helped grow Facebook’s world-class design team, bringing on leading visual designers, filmmakers, and brand storytellers to work on marketing and communication initiatives.<\/p>\n
Before Facebook, Ben was the design director at Varien, where he helped build Magento, one of the world’s leading e-commerce products later sold to eBay\/Paypal. Prior to Varien\/Magento Ben was a designer at CBS where he built web properties for top prime-time tv shows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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