About Me

Joe Heitzeberg is an entrepreneur and business leader in the technology sector. He is the former co-founder & CEO of Crowd Cow, a company he helped build to over $50 million in annual revenue, and former president of Madrona Venture Labs. Joe advises early-stage AI startups and organizes the global AI Tinkerers meetup community. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Washington, where he received the Allen School Alumni Impact Award, and an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.

Please check out AI Tinkerers and AI Tinkerers - Seattle

As of early August 2023 I am on leave dealing with an important personal family medical situation that is expected to last months. In light of this, regarding Blueprint AI, my co-founders and I decided to cease operations and return capital to investors. I am grateful for everyone's support during this challenging time.

Entrepreneurship

I co-founded Crowd Cow in 2015 and served as CEO for 7 years where the team and I build it to over $50MM in annual revenue by connecting conscientious and purpose-driven consumers to the highest quality producers of meats and seafoods. https://www.crowdcow.com

Prior to Crowd Cow, I was the co-founder and President of Madrona Venture Labs, the in-house startup incubator of Madrona Venture Group which produced venture-backed high tech startups including Mighty AI (acquired by Uber) and ReplyYes (acquired by Nordstrom).

Before that I was the founder and CEO of MediaPiston (bootstrapped & acquired by UpWork, NASDAQ: UPWK), and co-founder and CEO of Snapvine (VC-backed and acquired by WhitePages). I am a seed investor in startups such as Skilljar, Mystery and Algorithmia and I’m an LP in a few VC funds.

Education

B.S. in Computer Science - University of Washington
MBA - MIT Sloan School of Management

🏆 Recipient of 2019 Alumni Impact Award, University of Washington, Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering
🏆 Henry S. Tatsumi Scholarship for excellence in the study of Japanese, University of Washington, Asian Languages and Literature

Socials

LinkedIn

@jheitzeb

Interests

I’m interested in applying foundation models, large language models and deep learning to solve useful problems.

Please check out some of my tinkering.

Contact

The best way to get in touch is via an intro through mutuals.