Tristan
Huntington

Product & technology leader

Product leadership.
From idea to scale.

I lead consumer products from early prototypes to businesses at scale. I set product direction, negotiate the partnerships, and build working prototypes to test new ideas.

Focused on VP/SVP Product and GM roles across product and partnerships.

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Tristan Huntington

Currently at TextNowSVP, Innovation & Telecom Partnerships

I helped build TextNow into a phone service serving more than 10 million monthly active users across the U.S. and Canada, with over 300 million app downloads worldwide. Today, as SVP, Innovation & Telecom Partnerships, I lead new product work and the carrier relationships behind our wireless service.

300M+ downloads

TextNow app downloads worldwide. A product I helped build and grow.TextNow company figures ↗

10M+ monthly active users

TextNow’s service across the U.S. and Canada.TextNow service scale ↗

$1B+ cumulative revenue

TextNow’s revenue milestone. A business I helped build and grow.TextNow revenue milestone ↗

Selected work

New products.
Platforms at scale.

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New product · external beta

Yello! — a phone service for kids

Executive sponsor and product lead for a new phone service for kids. Built the first working AI-assisted prototype and led product direction through external beta.

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Leadership through a crisis

Replacing our only voice provider

A provider bankruptcy, a platform facing shutdown, and a matter of weeks to negotiate and deliver a new solution.

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Product strategy & innovation

Product direction & Labs

Set multi-year product direction and focused Labs on experiments that generated more than $1M in incremental revenue in 2025.

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How I work

Strategy that
gets built.

  1. 01

    Choose what to build.

    Set product priorities around customer needs and the business case.

  2. 02

    Secure what it needs.

    Negotiate partnerships and contracts, and work through the technical dependencies.

  3. 03

    Test it. Then deliver.

    Build a working prototype, learn from it, and lead the product through delivery.

About Tristan

Build the product.
Build the business.

A little about me

I helped build a carrier serving more than 10 million monthly active users.

I played a key role in scaling TextNow from a $10M revenue business to more than $150M in annual revenue. My work covered the voice platform, partnerships with multiple U.S. carriers, and consumer product direction.

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Focused on VP/SVP Product and GM roles across product and partnerships.

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