Bowen Pan
Co-Founder at Redwood Pan Group · Former at Common Room
Supporting the product and design teams at Common Room, the customer intelligent platform for go-to-market teams (www.commonroom.io).
Previously, founded Facebook Marketplace and scaled it to 800M MAU, built Facebook gaming to be 3rd largest live-streaming platform globally, launched Facebook's first short-form video app Lasso (that seeded the Reels product), rebuilt the Stripe Dashboard (used by millions of businesses) and launched Stripe Apps (third-party developer platform and B2B App Store for Stripe).
Always open to connecting with smart product folks and learning something new.
In their own words
From S3 | E4 - Bowen Pan (Common Room) on launching Facebook Marketplace, spotting hidden opportunities, and mastering the art of product · Diaspora NZThe best projects in large companies are high impact, low visibility projects. That's actually the type of project that has the highest chance of success.
Career
- Now Co-Founder · Redwood Pan Group
- Until 2025 · Scale-up VP of Product · Common Room
- Earlier · Scale-up Head of Product, Apps & Experience Platform · Stripe
- Earlier Founder of Facebook Marketplace · Facebook (Meta)
Sources: nzherald.co.nz, auckland.ac.nz
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