Full Name
Alon Shwartz
Job Title
COO & Co-Founder
Company
Trellis
Speaker Bio
A career entrepreneur and prominent tech executive, Alon Shwartz is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Trellis, where he mentors, advises, and leads cross-functional teams across the platform’s organization.
Shwartz earned a bachelor’s degree in math and computer science from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in 1997. He spent the next two years working as the Director of Solutions Development at Sophisticated Technologies before co-founding Synthean, a business process monitoring solution. Then, in 2007, Shwartz co-founded .docstoc, one of the largest digital repositories of content for small businesses and professionals. The repository was collaborative, a space where attorneys, accountants, real estate brokers, and other professionals could sell their commercial documents to other users on the platform.
This was just the beginning. The company was eventually acquired by Intuit, propelling Shwartz into a post-acquisition life at home with his family. He suddenly found himself waging a relentless battle to manage how much time his three children spent on their electronic devices. That’s when the idea for unGlue hit him. What if there was some kind of application that would do more than just restrict their screen time? What if there was a tool that would help empower his kids to develop healthier habits as they engage with their connected devices?
Over the next few years, unGlue quickly transformed from an idea into a complete platform. The product, which has been featured on USA Today, Mashable, and OZY, allowed parents to limit screen addiction issues by monitoring, controlling, and rewarding the amount of content their children consumed across any given screen. His journey with unGlue has been chronicled on The Pitch, a podcast that recounts the story of how the platform went head-to-head with one of the biggest tech companies in the world.
Shwartz had promised himself that unGlue would be his last startup. But then, while working as a technical advisor to Trellis, he remembered he’s a builder—not a consultant. So he joined the company as its Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer in 2019. Shwartz continues to mentor startups throughout Los Angeles, where he has nurtured the local tech community as an advisor for companies like Caroo, Revolution RE, SnackNation, Pulse, MedRepublic, Stick, Flo Technologies, and HAAWK. He also shares some of his entrepreneurial secrets at Alon Shwartz.
Shwartz lives in Los Angeles alongside his wife and their three children. If you’re fast enough, you might find him cruising the freeways on his motorcycle. He has also started flying airplanes.
Shwartz earned a bachelor’s degree in math and computer science from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in 1997. He spent the next two years working as the Director of Solutions Development at Sophisticated Technologies before co-founding Synthean, a business process monitoring solution. Then, in 2007, Shwartz co-founded .docstoc, one of the largest digital repositories of content for small businesses and professionals. The repository was collaborative, a space where attorneys, accountants, real estate brokers, and other professionals could sell their commercial documents to other users on the platform.
This was just the beginning. The company was eventually acquired by Intuit, propelling Shwartz into a post-acquisition life at home with his family. He suddenly found himself waging a relentless battle to manage how much time his three children spent on their electronic devices. That’s when the idea for unGlue hit him. What if there was some kind of application that would do more than just restrict their screen time? What if there was a tool that would help empower his kids to develop healthier habits as they engage with their connected devices?
Over the next few years, unGlue quickly transformed from an idea into a complete platform. The product, which has been featured on USA Today, Mashable, and OZY, allowed parents to limit screen addiction issues by monitoring, controlling, and rewarding the amount of content their children consumed across any given screen. His journey with unGlue has been chronicled on The Pitch, a podcast that recounts the story of how the platform went head-to-head with one of the biggest tech companies in the world.
Shwartz had promised himself that unGlue would be his last startup. But then, while working as a technical advisor to Trellis, he remembered he’s a builder—not a consultant. So he joined the company as its Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer in 2019. Shwartz continues to mentor startups throughout Los Angeles, where he has nurtured the local tech community as an advisor for companies like Caroo, Revolution RE, SnackNation, Pulse, MedRepublic, Stick, Flo Technologies, and HAAWK. He also shares some of his entrepreneurial secrets at Alon Shwartz.
Shwartz lives in Los Angeles alongside his wife and their three children. If you’re fast enough, you might find him cruising the freeways on his motorcycle. He has also started flying airplanes.
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