Hi, my name's
Tim L.
About
I like to make things, mostly apps.
At the moment, my apps have been downloaded 239,557,992 times.
I began my career at Instagram building things like Boomerang, Fade & Color, and the 11 most recent filters.
In 2016, I left Instagram and started a company called Real Labs with a co-founder, JJ Maxwell. We raised a $1.7M seed round from some of Silicon Valley’s top investors, and set off to build the next big app.
While building apps, we stumbled upon influencer marketing as great way to promote our products. In early 2018, we launched JetFuel and the Plug to help other companies scale influencer campaigns. We’ve delivered 71,817,527 installs for our partners and paid millions to influencers.
Once JetFuel started gaining traction, we launched two subsidiary businesses: Takeoff Labs and Refined Media .
Takeoff Labs is an app studio focused on social consumer experiences that partners with JetFuel for marketing. Since launching, we’ve released numerous Top 100 apps, with 10s of millions of installs across our titles.
Refined Media is a next generation media company, comprised of popular pages on Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok. We reach over 50M followers, producing well over 1B monthly impressions.
In mid-2021, JetFuel was acquired by Blackstone-owned Vungle, which merged with Blackstone-owned Liftoff shortly thereafter. I currently serve as the Chief Product Officer of JetFuel within Liftoff+Vungle rollup.
Want to get in touch? I'm on Twitter and Instagram. Carpe DM.
