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Alex Fishman

Alex Fishman

Founder & CEO at Bugsee — imaging and business‑development veteran

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San Jose, California
Joined October 2025
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Summary

Serial founder who iterated from Dishero (a restaurant‑menu startup) to Bugsee (a developer tooling product). Alex publicly documented the Dishero shutdown and the team’s subsequent pivot process, demonstrating reflective founder leadership and an ability to reframe learning into a new product opportunity. medium+2
Strong background in imaging and camera systems engineering and product leadership: multiple senior technical and business roles at imaging and consumer‑electronics companies (Zoran, NuCORE, MediaTek) and several technical/director roles at Lytro focused on camera engineering and business development. lightfield-forum+2
Builder of developer‑facing products: as Bugsee’s CEO he positioned the product as a ‘black‑box’ session replay + crash reporter for mobile apps, emphasizing integrations with standard developer workflows and concerns about privacy/security in data capture and transmission. bugsee+2
Public communicator and community participant: publishes longform reflections on startup lessons (Medium), has written guest pieces (VentureBeat), and speaks publicly at events (AltConf/WWDC interviews), indicating active engagement in the startup and developer communities. medium+2

Work

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Writing

My Cofounder Said “I love what we’re doing” And We Shut Down Our Startup

June 1, 2016

A first‑person longform account of the decision to close Dishero, exploring product/market considerations and the process of winding down a startup.

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Thoughts on Dishero

June 1, 2016

Detailed post (attachment referenced in the prior piece) analyzing Dishero's business metrics, burn, and options considered by the team prior to closing the company.

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Guest/Contributor pieces about mobile development and crash reporting

Guest articles and authored pieces about mobile development, crash reporting and product lessons (author page collecting contributions).

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Hobbies

Writes about startups, product‑market lessons and startup shutdown/pivot experiences (active on Medium and contributes guest pieces). medium+1