We are Rival IQ.

Since our founding in 2012, we've focused on making your social media data easier to find, analyze, and act upon.

About Our Team

At Rival IQ, we believe that every marketer deserves tools to make data work for them.

Our entire team comes to work every day ready to delight our customers and ready to learn. We're real people that all have a hand in helping you make the most of your marketing data. Keep reading to learn more about the incredible team that powers Rival IQ.

Our values

We're committed to the health and success of everyone involved with Rival IQ, from employees to customers to vendors and beyond. Here are the core values behind every decision we make to support the Rival IQ family.

Rival IQ is proud to be a Quid company.

Transparency

We seek to be transparent with our team and our customers. Transparency builds trust, and trust builds lasting relationships.

Diversity and inclusivity

We believe that embracing our unique perspectives and experiences make us a stronger, more capable, and more empathetic team.

Flexibility

We understand that work is but one part of life. Family and health are really important to us.

Customer commitment

We work as hard as possible to let our customers know how highly we value them and their decision to trust us with their social media analytics. We know that their success is our success.

Data-backed decision making

We believe we gain a better understanding of our world and make better decisions using data than we would on gut or experience alone. We work hard to know our metrics, and they help guide us to better outcomes for our team, customers, and business.

 

Want to see the Rival IQ team in action? Check out a recent all-hands-on-deck Hack Day for a peek into the thrivin' Rival IQ #startuplife.

Meet our talented team

  • John Clark(he/him)

    Founder

From making big strategic decisions to helping customers in our support queue to stocking the office shelves with healthy snacks, John keeps the trains on the tracks at Rival IQ. Founding companies is in his blood, and we like to think we’re at least tied for his favorite startup that he’s ever started with Seth Pollack and Seth Bridges.

He’s a lifelong Washingtonian who can often be found jetsetting across the globe when he’s not heading up the one-man Orcas Island Rival IQ HQ. He loves planning his next travel adventure (or at least his next ferry ride) and is our resident Old Fashioned bartender extraordinaire.

  • Seth Pollack(he/him)

    Founder

Seth is a true Northwest guy -- he grew up in Seattle, he's an engineer, and he loves the outdoors. When he's not coding or in the mountains, he loves adventuring around the Puget Sound (and the world!) with his family.

Another Northwest box that Seth checks is "I did some really cool stuff in the 90s at Microsoft." Having started and led the Active Server Pages (ASP) product at Microsoft, he really knows about building reliable, scalable software. He's done a bunch of other great stuff, too, including founding V2Green with a couple other folks on this team.

  • Arianna Bastianini

  • Arianna Bastianini(she/her)

    Product

We, er, permanently borrowed Arianna from our parent company Quid and couldn’t be happier to have her in as our resident product manager. From feature design to translating all things Quid to Rival IQ and vice versa, Arianna brings her deep industry expertise and passion to make our product better every day for our customers.

Speaking of translating, Arianna speaks five languages and already has her eye on a sixth. She’s also a total food nerd with the degree cred to back it up. We haven’t quite figured out how to make the most of that from her perch in London, but we’re working on it. We’re also scheming for a visit from her beloved pup Pepita who definitely needs a visit to Seattle HQ, right?

  • Lisa VanDenBerg

  • Lisa VanDenBerg(she/her)

    Design

When she’s not driving her kids all over the Puget Sound for sports or traversing the world on amazing family adventures, Lisa makes everything look good at Rival IQ. She brings her world-class design talents to our team after a decade (or two) wearing many creative hats at ESPN. Lisa’s gorgeous design aesthetic, digital marketing chops, and lightning-fast Sketch skills have seriously upped our product and marketing game.

Lisa loves the outdoors and traveling to cultures she’s never experienced before with her husband and two kids. She’s made a serious dent in our Diet Coke stash, but if that’s what it takes to power this graphic designergizer bunny, we’re not complaining.

  • John Lin

  • John Lin(he/him)

    Engineering

John joins us from our parent company, Quid, to bulk up our engineering team and to double our on-site John presence (watch out, John C.!). We’re told his commitment to wearing shorts year-round sharpens his focus and makes him an extra-effective software bug squasher.

When he’s not coding in shorts, he can be found hanging with his wife and two young kiddos, connecting with fellow kendama enthusiasts on the University of Washington campus, playing guitar, and traveling the world. We feel lucky to have him on loan from his native Taiwan.

Founded by

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John Clark

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Seth Pollack

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Seth "Doc" Bridges

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T.A. McCann

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