# Jeremy Baker

> Jeremy Baker is the Co-Founder and CTO of Zipline, the enterprise SaaS platform that connects corporate retail strategy to the frontline store employees executing it. A self-taught developer who skipped university to build a web design company at 16, he previously co-founded MightyHive (acquired by S4 Capital for $150M) and spent five years as a Senior Prototyper at Yahoo. Based in West Vancouver, BC, he built Zipline alongside CEO Melissa Wong to serve over 170,000 retail employees across brands like Gap, LUSH, Sephora, and LEGO.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CTO at Zipline
- **Organizations:** Zipline, MightyHive, Yahoo!, Raincity Studios, Illanti Industries Inc, SupporterWall, Alchemist Accelerator
- **Nationality:** Canadian
- **Education:** Web development and programming, Self-taught, Marketing courses, Capilano College, Business Strategy (online/extension courses), Stanford University, Startup accelerator program, Alchemist Accelerator, Attended, Illinois State University
- **Known for:** Co-founded MightyHive, acquired by S4 Capital for $150 million, Won Yahoo! SuperStar award (2010) for a prototyping tool deployed across nearly every Yahoo property, Co-founded Zipline, which serves 170,000+ retail employees globally

## Career timeline

- **Age 16** — Started first hardware company, assembling and selling computers to local businesses
- **1997** — Began professional work in web design, online product development, and technology
- **Early 2000s** — Director of Web Development at Raincity Studios; Principal Owner of Illanti Industries Inc; consulted for Hollywood Hill and Livtopia
- **2003** — Marketing courses at Capilano College
- **~2007** — Joined Yahoo! as Senior Prototyper on the Search and internationalization teams under Larry Cornett
- **2010** — Won Yahoo! SuperStar award for an innovative Prototyping and Experimentation tool deployed across nearly every Yahoo property
- **2011** — Stanford University Business Strategy courses
- **2012** — Left Yahoo!; co-founded MightyHive, an enterprise ad-tech startup
- **2014** — MightyHive handed off; co-founded Zipline (then Retail Zipline) with Melissa Wong in August 2014
- **2014-2015** — Attended Alchemist Accelerator
- **2019** — Zipline raised Series A funding from Emergence Capital and Serena Williams' Serena Ventures (May 2019)
- **2021** — Zipline raised $30M Series B led by Fifth Wall, bringing total funding to $39.6M
- **2022-2026** — Continues as Co-Founder and CTO at Zipline, serving 170,000+ retail employees across major global brands

## Achievements

- Co-founded MightyHive, acquired by S4 Capital for $150 million
- Won Yahoo! SuperStar award (2010) for a prototyping tool deployed across nearly every Yahoo property
- Co-founded Zipline, which serves 170,000+ retail employees globally
- Led Zipline to double its customer base during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Raised $39.6M in total funding for Zipline (Series A + Series B)
- Built open-source tools with GitHub repositories accumulating hundreds of stars (javascript-sqlite, live-css-editor)
- Completed Alchemist Accelerator program (2014-2015)
- Led a fully distributed engineering team while scaling a globally-deployed enterprise SaaS product

## Latest updates

- **2021-03** — Zipline raised $30M Series B round led by Fifth Wall with participation from Emergence Capital, Ridge Ventures, and others
- **2021-03** — Zipline reported 2.5x revenue growth and doubled customer base during the pandemic
- **2023-06** — Active on LinkedIn, sharing customer success stories and industry thought leadership around retail operations
- **2024-01** — Zipline continues expanding into pharmacy, grocery, and convenience store verticals

## Links

- Website: https://getzipline.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jhubert
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/jhubert
- GitHub: https://github.com/jhubert
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/retailzipline

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Last updated: 2026-05-26