Blake Machado
Founder, Product Management
I’m Blake and I’m passionate about designing and building great products.
Prior to OpenCandy I worked at DivX where I was the Product Lead for Stage6 the — now deadpooled — high quality video site (honored as one of the greatest defunct websites). I arrived at DivX along with Matt through the acquisition of our first startup, Corporate Green (CG), and I have a tattoo to commemorate the occasion.
At OpenCandy I’m excited to be helping the often overlooked software community. If we can encourage software developers to spend more time making great software, and connect users with that software, then I believe we’ll truly improve the software world — and that is our mission.
As for me, I like funny t-shirts, sports cars, Rock Band, and JakeAndAmir.com. You can find me elsewhere on the internets at places like LinkedIn and Yelp.
Favorite Software
FireFox (and the Web Developer add-on)
Zend Studio – By far the best PHP IDE
Trillian – My favorite IM client
PuTTY – Excellent Windows Telnet/SSH client
Media Player Classic – A light-weight media player for simply playing media (insanity!)
iTunes – Indoctrined with my iPod(s) and iPhone
XBMC – Great media center that has been improving for a long time
Steam – Keeping PC gaming innovative with digital distribution and community
The plan
Our mission is to create a better software community, one where developers are empowered to innovate and people's lives are made easier thanks to better software.
Are you with us?
The founding team
Adrian Bourke - Product Management
Blake Machado - Product Management
Chester Ng - Biz Dev & Sales
Darrius Thompson - CEO
Mark Chweh - Engineering
Matt Meredith - Engineering