I'm Ben Galbraith, a married forty-something American raising eight kids in Silicon Valley while working in tech.
In the near future, my family and I are moving to London while I work at Tessl. We anticipate a return to the USA in 2026 or 2027.
I have been privileged to partner with Dion Almaer for much of my career, though at the moment we find ourselves at different developer AI startups. To learn more about my work history, see LinkedIn; a short summary is below.
I used to blog, but it’s been a while, and it’s all pretty outdated. I do occasionally spew random thoughts on either Threads or Twitter.
I play a lot of board games, and, for reasons I don’t entirely understand, I log every play; you can see the gory details at Board Game Geek.
You can reach me by sending an email to my first or last name @ octo.dad.[*]
Leading product + design as we define "AI native" software development.
Have made ~20 angel investments in early-stage tech startups. Also an LP in the Uncorrelated 2020 and 2022 VC funds.
Senior product + design + GTM leader on Firebase, Chrome, Privacy Sandbox, and Identity / Passkeys.
In-between my two Google runs, I was VP Product up until Segment’s acquisition by Twilio.
VP Engineering for mobile US business for two years, then VP Product + Design + Engineering for all global ecommerce.
Led Developer Marketing for webOS; as a side quest, my team built the best mobile Facebook app.
Co-created Bespin, an open-source, web-based code editor; a few years ahead of its time.
Co-founded the leading web developer community of its time; sold it to TechTarget.
Left high school to lead a small software development team making Windows and early web apps. Super fun.