Spencer Schoeben
Founding Staff Software Engineer, Delphi·life is great
About
I’m Spencer. I’m a design-minded at Delphi who loves turning rough into products that feel and alive.
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i almost didn't join, thought it was a hackathon project, but met with the founders every other week for months before saying yes.
i met dara and sam when delphi was in its infancy. i kept showing up, they kept vetting me, and by the time we agreed to work together, it felt inevitable. this is the first startup where what we're building actually feels like it's working, and i think my excitement about it is not a coincidence.
i joined because i'd already missed the coinbase rocket in 2013 and wasn't going to make that mistake twice.
built the MVP in 3 months with SwiftUI and shipped a banking platform for startups that let founders raise via SAFE contracts on-platform. left when a broken trust moment in my exit, being told something would happen and watching it not, made staying impossible.
i joined to rebuild a candidate-facing iOS app and ended up going full-stack, then wrote a departure note that was really about needing the work to feel like ar
i can build fast and i can go deep, but what drains me is when the HOW gets over-specified. i wrote a note at the time: creating software is like creating art, and with too much micromanagement, it doesn't feel like that. i knew i needed to find a place that celebrated technical ambition.
i hired a team of four, architected the whole stack, and led product, all while figuring out that making creation feel dead simple is one of the hardest enginee
magma was a mobile-first publishing platform where anyone could design an immersive digital magazine from their phone. i owned the full product development process, from roadmap to architecture to hiring. the hardest thing wasn't the tech, it was closing the gap between what felt intuitive to us and what actually felt intuitive to a new user.
i bootstrapped an entertainment commerce company in LA with clients like Travis Scott, SZA, and Top Dawg Entertainment.
i had just dropped out of tufts for good, moved to LA, and leaned into music tech. we started as a digital creative agency to generate revenue, then narrowed into an end-to-end platform for artists and labels. it was scrappy, it was real, and it taught me what it actually takes to sell something.
Co-founder·Marko Labs Inc. · 2013 – 2015
Entrepreneur in Residence Intern·Khosla Ventures · 2014
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