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Bowen Pan

Co-Founder at Redwood Pan Group · Former at Common Room

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Bowen Pan

About Bowen Pan

Supporting the product and design teams at Common Room, the customer intelligent platform for go-to-market teams (www.commonroom.io).

Previously, founded Facebook Marketplace and scaled it to 800M MAU, built Facebook gaming to be 3rd largest live-streaming platform globally, launched Facebook's first short-form video app Lasso (that seeded the Reels product), rebuilt the Stripe Dashboard (used by millions of businesses) and launched Stripe Apps (third-party developer platform and B2B App Store for Stripe).

Always open to connecting with smart product folks and learning something new.

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Key moments from S3 | E4 - Bowen Pan (Common Room) on launching Facebook Marketplace, spotting hidden opportunities, and mastering the art of product.

  1. 0:32Bowen’s journey from Trade Me to Facebook, Stripe, and Common Room
  2. 2:27Spotting hidden opportunities: the power of latent user behaviour
  3. 9:45Building Facebook Marketplace from scratch
  4. 21:00How Bowen validated Marketplace’s potential
  5. 28:43Stripe’s mission and building a platform for SMBs
  6. 35:43What defines excellent product management?
  7. 47:26The future of product leadership in the age of AI
  8. 55:18How New Zealand shaped Bowen’s global career
  9. 59:25Using New Zealand as a global testing ground
  10. 1:03:55Investing philosophy: finding founders with secret insights

In their own words.

“The best projects in large companies are high impact, low visibility projects. That's actually the type of project that has the highest chance of success.”
Bowen Pan — S3 | E4 - Bowen Pan (Common Room) on launching Facebook Marketplace, spotting hidden opportunities, and mastering the art of productDiaspora NZ with David Booth · 28 March 2025

The path so far.

  1. Now

    Co-Founder · Redwood Pan Group

  2. Until 2025 · Scale-up

    VP of Product · Common Room

  3. Earlier · Scale-up

    Head of Product, Apps & Experience Platform · Stripe

  4. Earlier

    Founder of Facebook Marketplace · Facebook (Meta)

Sources: nzherald.co.nz, auckland.ac.nz

Redwood Pan Group on Day One

Redwood Pan Group is a boutique advisory and investment firm founded by Bowen Pan and his wife Maya, advising founders, executives and boards across the Asia-Pacific on…

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