Willem Van Lancker
Willem Van Lancker is an American entrepreneur and product designer, who is best known for being the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of ebooks company Oyster.[1][2][3]
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Born | |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Moses Brown School, Rhode Island School of Design |
Occupation | Former CPO of Oyster |
Website | www |
Biography
Willem Van Lancker was born in Providence, Rhode Island. He attended the private high school Moses Brown School, graduating in 2006.[4] Van Lancker received a BFA degree in Graphic Design in 2010 from Rhode Island School of Design.[5] He briefly attended Harvard Business School for graduate courses but did not complete his degree.[6] It was at grad school where he met Eric Stromberg, one of the future co-founders of Oyster.[6]
He began his career at Adidas in 2008 as an intern.[1] Van Lancker later interned at Apple in 2009 where he helped create Apple's emoji.[7] From 2010 until 2012, Van Lancker was a user experience designer for Google Maps where he worked on Google Maps for iOS and "The New Google Maps."[8][6][9] Oyster was founded in 2012 by Van Lancker, Eric Stromberg and Andrew Brown.[2] After Oyster was acquired by Google in 2015, Van Lancker and the rest of the staff moved to Google.[10]
Van Lancker was named one of Forbes Magazine's 30 Under 30 in 2015.[1][11]
References
- "Willem Van Lancker, 27". Forbes. 2015. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
- Hamburger, Ellis (2014-11-05). "The future of books is on your phone, not your tablet". The Verge. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
- "Oyster Raises $3M From Founders Fund To Finally Create An Unlimited Subscription Service For Books". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
- "MB Cupola fall 2014 / winter 2015: Design Thinking". Issuu. Moses Brown School. Fall 2014. p. 19. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
- "Modi Among Top Tech Designers". Our RISD, Rhode Island School of Design. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
- D'Onfro, Jillian. "How e-book startup Oyster plans to be the 'Amazon of the next 10 years'". Business Insider. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
Oyster is the brainchild of Van Lancker, formerly a Google user experience designer and now chief product officer
- Coscarelli, Joe (2012-12-09). "The Proliferation of Emoji". New York Magazine. Archived from the original on 2012-12-12. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
- Parfeni, Lucian. "The Google Maps Pin Gets Modernized, Maps Sports a Fresh New Look (Screenshots)". softpedia. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
- Rosen, Rebecca J. (2012-01-11). "How Do You Build an Interactive, Clear, and Detailed Map of the Whole World?". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
explains Willem Van Lancker and Jonah Jones, two user experience and visual designers on the Google Maps team
- "E-book service Oyster closes down as much of its staff heads to Google". GeekWire. 2015-09-22. Retrieved 2021-01-27.
- "Profile: Willem Van Lancker, Cofounder". Forbes. 2015.