Jake Schaeffer is a seasoned marketer and product strategist with a passion for innovation and exploring the world. He boasts an impressive resume, having hosted design thinking workshops with IDEO, set up machine learning arms of billion-dollar telecom firms, and produced a documentary series in India. Jake was a member of the first-ever class at Minerva, where he co-built the university from scratch and ran an outreach team for the school, helping it become the most selective university in the US. Jake now heads up growth efforts at Namebase, where he is working to improve the underlying infrastructure of the internet. He possesses expertise in marketing strategy, product ownership, and user research and enjoys discussing the future of software development.