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Othman Laraki is co-founder and President Color Genomics. Previously, Othman was Twitter’s Vice President of Product, responsible for Growth, International and Revenue. Prior to Twitter, Othman co-founded MixerLabs (creator of GeoAPI), which was acquired by Twitter in 2009. Before that, he was at Google, where he led several products, including performance efforts, the Google Toolbar, Google Gears and early Firefox extensions. Othman holds degrees in computer science and management from Stanford and MIT. Othman serves on the board of directors of ESI Group, a publicly-traded French software company and BASES, Stanford University’s primary student-led entrepreneurship organization. He is also an investor and advisor to some of Silicon Valley’s highest profile startups, such Pinterest, AngelList and TreasureData. He is @othman on Twitter.