SharkPreneur Episode with David Subar

On today's episode, Seth speaks to David Subar , Chief Product Officer / Chief Technology Officer at Interna , about "Building Company Culture, Before It’s Too Late" David Subar is the Chief Product Officer / Chief Technology Officer at Interna. Before Interna, he was a senior product management and technology executive for Break Media, and was responsible for product management and product development as well as managing the technical infrastructure. He led an international team based in Los Angeles and Shanghai, and was responsible for the company’s multi-platform technology strategy across mobile and internet-connected CE devices, in addition to overseeing Break’s in-house advertising technology server, Apex. David has run technology groups responsible for over $200M in annual revenue and has also served as an interim CTO working with top venture capitalist firms to accelerate the growth of their portfolio companies and consulted to companies including Lynda.com and frog designs. Interna Consulting Helps companies build and ship products, advises CEOs, CTOs, Chief Product Officers, and investors, on product and engineering efficiency, re-organizing product and engineering teams, driving product release, building new architectures, and growing teams. Performs due diligence on new investments and existing product/engineering groups. Clients have included: • Meta, a leading augmented reality company creating a head mounted display, an AR operating environment, API, SDK and applications with $72MM in venture capital. - Managed Product Management, Software, Hardware Engineering, R&D and UX to drive the product towards shipment of newest product Meta 2. • Lynda.com - Led redevelopment and re-launch of product in order to increase growth. Subsequently, Lynda.com was sold to LinkedIn for $1.5B. • Disney ABC Television Group - Brought in to create a common engineering culture that would allow DATG’s technology group to compete with Facebook and Google, define an organization structure that allows for a common infrastructure to be built and available globally, and also on strategies for Office of the DATG CTO. • frog design - Worked with frog industrial design and innovation clients including McKesson, Disney Parks and Resorts, and Toyota. Major projects included design of Disney’s Magic Band now deployed at Disney World. • PlutoTV - Advised on Product Management group and software and product development. Served as a consultant to VP of Engineering and Chief Strategy Officer and served as interim CTO/CPO. Realigned the Product and Engineering groups, hired personnel, advised on acqui-hire and new office opening and re-aligned the product development process into an agile development process. Company released media products on five new platforms and redeveloped existing platforms as well as major single stream functionality and server-side stitching while David served as interim CTO/CPO.