Francesco Polizzi
Cofounder & CEO at Lazyweb
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFrancesco Polizzi is a product-focused founder and operator with 11 years of experience scaling consumer and education products used by tens of millions monthly. He led Photomath’s product, design, and math teams through hypergrowth and built its subscription business prior to acquisition by Google, then ran core experiences at Discord and product at Outschool during major fundraising and expansion. Comfortable bridging engineering and strategy, he has repeatedly taken hands-on roles in growth, monetization, and retention—earlier in his career at Dropbox and Mozilla—while shipping measurable increases in engagement and revenue. Now founding a stealth startup in San Francisco, he combines a technical CS background with philosophical curiosity and a knack for turning classroom learning into sustainable business models.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science and Philosophy, Computer Science and Philosophy at Lindenwood University
English
Github Skills (23)
django10
css10
firefox10
pebble10
html10
mozilla10
javascript9
python9
optimizely8
mozilla-firefox8
webservice8
capstone7
adblock6
firefox-addon6
permalink5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
FrancescoSTL/all-aboard-1
Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:169 pushes, 66 branches in 2 months
firefoxonboardingdesktopmozillaadd-on
mozilla/bakery
Oct 2015 - Dec 2015
Web service for remote Optimizely A/B test creation.
Contributions:56 commits, 24 PRs, 51 pushes in 3 months
optimizelywebservice
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