Adam Martin

Background

I’ve been in the initial team of multiple startups that later grew to $250m+ valuations, and I’ve hired and led teams from idea through to their first $1m ARR. I’ve been part of many successful and failed launches, and since 2008 have been a strong believer in Eric Ries’s “Lean Startup”.

Along with a 20 year career in tech, I studied psychology/education at postgraduate level, and qualified as a schoolteacher, giving me extensive skills in building consensus, managing difficult personalities, and defusing conflicts.

In my Engineering career, I designed and built cloud systems from scratch (in the years before AWS existed), and patented tech for scaling distributed server backends. I single-handedly re-implemented CSS3/Flexbox in C# for Unity3D (available commercially on the AssetStore, and at https://flexbuilder.ninja/)

I wrote a book for hiring managers, based on personal interviews with 10 veterans of the tech industry, each with decades of hiring and management experience.

• Worked in: Robotics, AI, Finance
• Focus on: Revenue growth, tech innovation, and Product/Market Fit (P/MF)

• Account sales to corporate clients: MSN, HBO, Hachette, Pan Macmillan
• Featured by Apple, Google for multiple iOS, Android apps
• Using Lean/Agile/Scrum to run parallel Product / Engineering teams

• Head of Technology/Engineering for Europe
• Introducing Agile/Scrum across multiple teams/countries