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About West

With over two decades of experience leading successful product innovation teams, West Stringfellow has a proven track record of delivering results. He has launched dozens of award-winning products and platforms that are used by hundreds of millions of customers on a daily basis, and has overseen over $300 million in product management and innovation for top companies such as Amazon, PayPal, Rosetta Stone, Target, and Visa.

In addition to founding and patenting his own startup, which was later acquired by a Fortune 50 company, West also founded and led the Techstars Retail startup accelerator. He is the holder of five patents.
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My Core Values

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Customer obsession.
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Data, not assumptions.
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Use proven processes.
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After 7 years of working in server closets, I was recruited to Amazon! 🌟
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Envisioned and built Amazon’s fraud office in Bangalore, India. Now Amazon’s largest analytics facility. 🇮🇳
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Met with members of Parliament in London as VP, Innovation at Visa. 🤝
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Recruited by PayPal while cruising through Sydney harbor. Joined as the Director of Product and Customer Experience for Australia.  🎉
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Launching PayPal’s first point of sale product as Senior Director, Global Innovation. We swept the PYMNTS.com awards at Harvard for this product. 💸
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Closing the Nasdaq. Pretty cool moment. 📊
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Joining Rosetta Stone as Chief Product Officer where we launched several award winning products. 🏆
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📰 MEDIA MENTION
My recruiting efforts made the front page of the San Francisco paper when I was CPO at BigCommerce. 📰
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Joining Target as their 1st Entrepreneur in Residence! 🏠
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Launching the Techstars Retail Accelerator that I proposed and built. 🏗️
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Launching HowDo!!! 🤩
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What people are saying

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“West is a Tour De Force of vision and execution. I've worked with a lot of product leaders in my time, and few can motivate hundreds worldwide around a common vision and execute to plan like West. Top 5 I've worked with in my 20 year career, easily.”
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West ❤️s Innovation

Innovation is the most critical investment companies will make - or avoid - in the next 10 years of our planet's history. Innovation develops nimble yet sturdy, category-defining businesses. As a result, employees are empowered at every level with quality jobs, and corporations of all sizes are more effectively aligned to contribute solutions to the greatest threats to life on Earth, including inequality and climate change.
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Startup 101: Building a $B Business as an EIR at Target
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10 guidelines to help you innovate and get stuff done
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How to Build a Startup Accelerator at a Large Firm - lessons from Target
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