LANE BECKER

Lane Becker is around the internet ever since its inception. From his first work-study assignment in 1994 which was aboutdeveloping websites for Texas University to his maiden start-up in 1999. Lane was the co-founder of Adaptive Path in the year of 2001 which is among the very first design companies based on used experience. He also co-founded Get Satisfaction which is an online platform for customer service which is now used by in excess of 75,000 companies and has acquired more than 20 million dollar so far.

While working with Adaptive Path, Lane provided New Ventures program along with consultations and it assisted many budding start-ups with development of products in return for equity. This program witnessed many successful exits. Lane also developed a blog analytic tool called Measure Map. Google acquired this tool and integrated in Google Analytics.

Lane was the co-writer of the famous book ‘Get Lucky: How to Put Planned Serendipity to Work’ along with Thor Muller who was the co-founder of Get Satisfaction as well. This book created ripples in the industry and was declared as the best seller business book by New York Times. This book deals with the ways to harness serendipity as a business trick. From the early days of 2014, Lane has started working with a non profit called Code for America as the director of products and start-ups. This non profit will assist residents as well as government to use technology to fix community issues. Lane is the venture advisor at Freestyle.vc.

He is also an efficient speaker and has provided training on user experience for many organizations such as the Bank of America. At present he is located at San Francisco, California Bay Area and he takes interests in kayaks, cocktails, pool parties, nonfictions.