April Underwood was the chief product officer at

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. Before joining Slack, she held positions at

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, and WeatherBill. She is a co-founder of #Angels, an investment group for early-stage start-ups.

Education

Underwood graduated from the

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in 2001 with a

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in information systems, and later received an MBA from the

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. While at Berkeley, she completed an MBA internship at

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Career

Underwood has held various positions in the technology industry at companies including

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, and Travelocity. She joined Google in 2007 as a senior partner technology manager, where she led content acquisition and monetization strategies. She then joined Twitter in 2010, where she was a product manager on features including the "tweet" and "follow" buttons, and led the creation of the Ads API. She also managed search partnerships with

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, and

, and directed Twitter's

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team. She was the director of product at Twitter when she left in 2015 to join Slack as the head of platform. Underwood oversaw the product management, platform, research, and design teams at Slack. In 2015, she joined other women who currently or formerly worked at Twitter to create an investment group called #Angels. In September 2016, Underwood was named in ''

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'' list of "40 Under 40" influential businesspeople. In 2018 she became Slack's

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. She left Slack in January 2019 to focus on #Angels full-time.

References

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