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Now on the heels of its acquisition by Google, co-founders Lloyd Tabb and Ben Porterfield, CEO Frank Bien, and first investor Bill Trenchard come together to fill in the details and dig into the lessons learned from Looker's founding story.
Ben Porterfield is the co-founder and VP of engineering at Looker. He held positions for various companies including Readyforce, Rally Up Inc., BlackArrow, and Sticky Inc. Ben holds a BS in computer science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Ben Porterfield is VP:Engineering/Co-Founder at Looker. See Ben Porterfield's compensation, career history, education, & memberships.
The company was founded in Santa Cruz, California in January, 2012 by Lloyd Tabb and Ben Porterfield and occupied the historic Rittenhouse building there. The product grew out of Tabb's experience building software at companies like Netscape, LiveOps, and Luminate before founding Looker.
Mr. Ben Porterfield was a Co-Founder and Vice President of Engineering of Looker. Ben has worked in both engineering and product roles at numerous startups in and around Silicon Valley. He was the lead engineer at Sticky, Inc., later acquired by DeviceVM.
Jul 3, 2019 · His co-founder Ben Porterfield joined a few months later to help build out the product. By experimenting with different delivery models and cultivating a small yet mighty fanbase of early customers, they were able to bootstrap until they raised their seed round in the summer of 2012, which was co-led by First Round’s Bill Trenchard.
