About
I’ve spent my life working in the formative years of startups — the fragile early stretch when everything is still taking shape and the path ahead is just starting to harden. I started my first company at nineteen and learned how much the early moves matter: who you hire, what you build, who you build for, and how you tell the story. Those choices become the foundation everything else rests on. Get them right, and the startup compounds. Get them wrong, and you spend years trying to undo them. I’ve lived that firsthand — leading multiple startups through nearly every scenario: raising money in forty-eight hours and failing to raise for six months, building products customers loved and ones they ignored, hiring great people and having to let people go, scaling past $100M in revenue and then stalling out, selling one company and merging another. Since joining First Round almost fifteen years ago, I’ve worked to be the kind of partner I wished I’d had — someone who knows how lonely those e…
Experience
Partner
Present
I am a generalist and have invested across b2b + consumer companies including hardware, SaaS, Fintech, Health, and Climate tech. Some of my investments: Looker, Flexport, Verkada, Superhuman, Rillet, Serval, Omni Analytics, Together AI, Assort Health, Cache, EvolutionIQ, Airbase, Crossbeam, Ossium, Promise, Labelbox, Remora Carbon + many others...
Angel Investor
Self
Present
Investments Include: Ginkgo Bioworks, Moat, MileIQ, NextRoll, Step, Honor, Everlane, Newfront Insurance, Topsy, LendingClub, Gyft, IronPort, Powerset, Xoopit, Tapulous, Slide, Chegg + many others
Co-Founder & Board Member
Ceo / Chairman
World's leading virtual call center company. CEO for 4 years then recruited new CEO, Maynard Webb, in December 2006
Board Member
Our mission at Looker is to inspire everyone to embrace their curiosity, dig deeper and keep asking questions.
Board Member
Founder Partner
Founder Collective is seed stage capital fund built by a collection of successful entrepreneurs including David Frankel, Eric Paley, Chris Dixon, Caterina Fake, Micah Rosenbloom and Zach Klein. My investments include (among others): Uber, ThredUp, Stackmob, Moat, Pocket, Proven, HomeRun, Gigwalk
Board Member
HomeRun
Founding team member and board member of HomeRun, sold to Rearden Commerce in September 2011.
Co-Founder and Ceo
CallCast, Inc.
CallCast built an innovative voice over IP (VoIP) software platform that could handle almost any type of phone interaction. We merged with LiveOps in 2003.
Managing Director
Msn Group
Education
Cornell University
BA
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