what we're up to • the team • open roles
our lives are shaped by the places we go: the neighborhood cafes that become part of our weekly rituals. the family-owned restaurants that serve up dishes reminiscent of home. the bars where we dance our hearts out surrounded by familiar strangers.
we take places seriously because where we choose to spend our time matters just as much as who we choose to spend it with. the review platforms we use today were built 20 years ago and have barely innovated since.
Corner is a home for people who take places as seriously as we do. join us in reimagining how technology can bring us closer to our friends, communities, and the physical world around us.
we’re a lean team of creative and unconventional thinkers. you’ll quickly learn that we have a bias towards reinventing what’s possible instead of iterating on what already exists. we push the boundaries of ux, design, and engineering while dreaming up new ways of using AI to make features feel like magic. we attribute this philosophy to our unconventional backgrounds and the paths we forged to get here.
our ceo/product designer/HR person/admin was previously a vc & pe investor at an $89B fund of funds. she grew up in a restaurant family where she packed take out orders and cleaned tables as a kid. she has lived in nyc, shanghai, new orleans, los angeles, santa barbara, and san francisco.
our cto is a full stack engineer and in-house R&D department who dropped out from the University of Waterloo. he started a design agency at age 13 (which paid for his very first iPhone) and taught himself how to code at 14. he built robots in high school and college.
our founding iOS dev was most recently at Instacart building the shopper map and before that migrated a react-native app to native Swift at a seed stage start up. he dropped out mid-college to join Microsoft’s iOS team where he redesigned the Outlook app.
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