About Blake Williams
Blake Williams blogs about tech, marketing, food, and other sundry bits in and around the San Francisco bay area on whatihearyousayingis.com. Blake grew up in Alaska, has lived in Seattle, Colorado, and Kyoto Japan. He now lives in Sunnyvale, CA with his family and enjoys talking about himself in the third-person whenever possible.
Blake is a co-founder of StoryJumper and serves as its VP of Product and Marketing. Blake was formerly the Senior Director of Product Management at Topix -- a top 20 online news site. There, Blake oversaw product strategy and implementation of all customer-facing features, including Topix's highly successful community forums platform and free-classifieds system. Prior to Topix, he led the program team responsible for PayPal's flagship SMB payments platform. Blake's tenure in the Silicon Valley includes senior positions at eBay/Paypal, AOL Time-Warner, and Apple Computer. Blake holds an MA from Stanford University and a BA from Colorado College. He is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).