We build businesses
With a focus on media, marketplaces and financial tech, we tackle everything from big ideas to incremental fine tuning to help your business grow.
Our offering
Fractional leadership
We partner with executives to help define and execute their strategy from the product roadmap, to go to market, to org structure, and M&A.
R&D
We build and launch new apps: an external R&D department to build and test new ideas in lighting speed. See what we've built
Growth Optimization
We translate what worked at high performing marketing organizations into your business to drive growth.
Who We Are
Ben Stahl
Ben is a seasoned software engineer turned general management executive, with deep expertise in media, marketplaces, and financial technology. Before founding Buster Labs, Ben was the GM of International and Emerging Businesses at Care.com. His earlier career includes leading engineering at Vimeo, where he built the fastest video upload pipeline on the internet. He went on to lead both product and engineering at Soundcloud, scaling the creator organization and bringing distribution, mastering, and integrated DJ products to market. As an executive, Ben has a proven track record of incubating new revenue streams in established businesses, with many multi-million-dollar success stories.
Product & Engineering
A curated list of the best product thinkers and engineers I've worked with in the past. Most are freelance, some moonlight, but all are extremely talented.
Strategy
CRM, FP&A, [insert acronym here]. We pull the right people together to get the job done and grow your business.
Trusted by
Media & Streaming
Marketplaces
Financial Technology
Let's chat
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