# Brian Park

> Brian Park is the CEO of Skillest, the world's leading remote sports coaching marketplace that connects athletes with elite coaches through asynchronous video analysis. A Silicon Valley veteran who was the 95th employee at Yahoo and co-founder of Yahoo! Messenger, Park pivoted to sports tech to democratize access to elite coaching - putting a world-class coach in every athlete's pocket. Under his leadership, Skillest has grown to 600+ coaches, 200,000+ golfers, and secured partnerships with Stephen Curry's UNDERRATED Golf and Arccos Golf, becoming the digital coaching standard in golf and expanding across multiple sports.

- **Role:** CEO at Skillest
- **Organizations:** Skillest, Yahoo!, Plays.tv, PokerCoaching.com, Seventh Sense, Winzy LLC, Smart Data Media, Xfire
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** MBA, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
- **Known for:** Co-founded Yahoo! Messenger as one of the earliest employees (95th hire) at Yahoo!, Built Skillest into the world's #1 remote sports coaching marketplace with 200,000+ golfers, Secured 600+ elite coaches on Skillest including Sean Foley (Tiger Woods' former coach) and Cameron McCormick (Jordan Spieth's coach)

## Career timeline

- **1995-2004** — Joined Yahoo! as 95th employee; rose to Director of Product Management and co-founded Yahoo! Messenger
- **2004** — Joined Xfire as Senior Director of Product Management and Marketing
- **2005** — Founded Winzy LLC and co-founded Smart Data Media
- **2007** — Founded Seventh Sense, a digital marketing business
- **2016-2018** — Vice President of Growth at Plays.tv (gaming video platform)
- **2018** — Joined PokerCoaching.com as Chief Operating Officer; grew business and revenue significantly
- **2018** — Became CEO of Skillest; led seed funding round (July 2018)
- **2022** — Led Skillest Wefunder community round at $12M-$15M valuation with Albert Lee (MyFitnessPal co-founder) as lead investor
- **2024** — Secured exclusive partnership with Stephen Curry's UNDERRATED Golf program
- **2024** — Announced Arccos Golf integration bringing on-course analytics to Skillest coaching platform

## Achievements

- Co-founded Yahoo! Messenger as one of the earliest employees (95th hire) at Yahoo!
- Built Skillest into the world's #1 remote sports coaching marketplace with 200,000+ golfers
- Secured 600+ elite coaches on Skillest including Sean Foley (Tiger Woods' former coach) and Cameron McCormick (Jordan Spieth's coach)
- Became exclusive golf coaching partner of Stephen Curry's UNDERRATED Golf program
- Raised community investment round at $12-15M valuation with MyFitnessPal co-founder Albert Lee as lead investor
- Partnered with Arccos Golf, the PGA Tour's official game tracker, to integrate analytics with coaching
- Expanded Skillest beyond golf to swimming, basketball, baseball, and cricket
- MBA from Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley

## Latest updates

- **2024-09** — Skillest announced integration with Arccos Golf, bringing real-time on-course analytics and strokes gained data into the coaching workflow
- **2024-04** — Skillest named exclusive golf coaching partner of UNDERRATED Golf, Stephen Curry's junior golf equity program
- **2023-02** — InsideGOLF published exclusive interview with Brian Park on why the future of coaching is digital
- **2022-01** — Skillest launched community investment round on Wefunder at $12M valuation with Albert Lee (MyFitnessPal co-founder) as lead investor

## Links

- Website: https://skillest.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brianpark
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/skillestapp
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/skillestapp/

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Last updated: 2026-05-14