Daniel Raffel

Who is Daniel Raffel?

Daniel Raffel is a San Francisco-based startup founder who is currently on sabbatical.1 He has a background spanning 25 years as a vegetarian and environmentalist.1 Over the past 15+ years, he has held product lead roles at companies like Google, Slack, and Yahoo.1 He also founded a startup called Snapguide and worked as a chef at Thomas Keller's Per Se restaurant.1

Some of the notable products he has launched include1:

• Nest Home & Away
• Google Home Automations
• Snapguide
• Songbird
• Yahoo Pipes

In his personal life, Daniel enjoys spending time with his wife Sara, biking, cooking, traveling, watching movies, listening to podcasts, surfing, making music with modular synths, guitars and drum machines, reading non-fiction, learning new things, and working on side projects.1

Daniel's LinkedIn profile shows that he has been working as the Chief Sabbatical Officer at Sabbatical for 488 days.23 The average duration he works for a company is 2 years and 3 months.3