Persona

Persona is building the first video and audio platform dedicated to creating, sharing and discovering meaningful human conversations. Instagram for interviews.

  • Stage Prototype Ready
  • Industry Media and Entertainment
  • Location Norwalk, CT, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded September 2018
  • Employees 5
  • Incorporation Type C-corp
  • Website personainterviews.co

Company Summary

Persona’s mission is to be the place where meaningful and informative human conversations can be recorded, shared and discovered forever. It will provide tools (via mobile and web) to record and preserve "interviews" among family and friends, but also public interviews.

Persona aims to fill a "meaning gap" that exists in today's social media. Conversations will be the main currency as opposed to photos, status updates or tweets.

Team

  • Rob Simmelkjaer
    Co-Founder and CEO

    Rob Simmelkjaer is an experienced media executive and on-air journalist (ESPN, ABC News, NBC News and Sports). He worked in various executive roles at ESPN/Disney, most recently Senior Vice President of NBC Sports Ventures. He also hosted three Olympics on the air for NBC Sports. He founded Persona in 2019.

    Rob is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School.

  • Evan Beland
    Co-Founder and CTO

    Evan Beland is an entrepreneur, mobile developer and startup veteran with ten years experience starting companies and building mobile apps. Throughout his career he has taken key leadership roles in various startups including CTO and cofounder of Covetly (YC17S), technical co founder and product lead for Optoon and various advisor roles.

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