Bismarck Lepe

Bismarck Lepe is an information technology CEO and product manager.

Bismarck C Lepe
Born
Accra
OccupationFounder of Wizeline
WebsiteWizeline

Currently, Lepe is founder of Wizeline.

Prior to founding Ooyala with Sean Knapp (CTO) and Belsasar Lepe (Director of Engineering),[1] Lepe worked at Google as a Senior Product Manager responsible for the development and launch of monetization products for the Google AdSense network. While at Google, Bismarck launched over 25 different products focused on search and content monetization that contributed over $1 billion in annual revenue. Lepe directly led the display and video advertising efforts for the AdSense network.[2]

At Ooyala, Lepe was CEO and President of Product from inception in 2007 until August 2009. As CEO, he raised over $10M of funding, developed the strategic vision of the company and signed many of the early media partnerships. In the role of President of Product Strategy, Lepe was responsible for all product and corporate marketing functions and was leading the team focused on developing new monetization technologies for media companies.

Background

Lepe also sits on the Ooyala Board of Directors and is a graduate of Stanford University. He is Mexican American. His parents are from Juchitlán, Jalisco, Mexico who moved to the United States in 1979 as migrant agricultural workers who would take Bismarck back and forth to Mexico until he was 5 years old. Lepe speaks fluent Mexican Spanish. His uncle was a doctor in Manzanillo, Mexico. He went to public school in Southern California.[3][4]

gollark: And then remove "owo gamer 1337".
gollark: Assuming they have multiple languages support, they should just add an "owo gamer 1337" language and a "standard English" language.
gollark: Probably!
gollark: They keep adding new features but they're poorly integrated with everything and just tacked into random parts of the UI!
gollark: It would be better if Discord could integrate with other more open platforms - even *Google Talk* could - so you could avoid the terrible client application and stuff could move to other things without horrible problems - but it *doesn't* and they *actively ban* this in the ToS (though to be fair you can do it anyway).

References
  1. Burrows, Peter (31 December 2007). "What Ooyala is Up To". The Tech Beat. Bloomberg Business Week. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
  2. "Bismark Lepe, CEO of Ooyala". Digital Dealmakers. TV Week. 15 March 2009. Archived from the original on 20 January 2010. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
  3. "Startup 101 Workshop with Bismark Lepe". StartupGDL. Retrieved 3 May 2019.
  4. https://thenextweb.com/la/2016/07/05/tech-latin-america-june-2016/#.tnw_emMn8gbu


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