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Software Developer @ consultant for Intel, MSFT, others I developed client/server apps and SQL database systems for corporate clients in Silicon Valley. I worked as a consultant with Microsoft developing mission-critical capacity planning and scheduling systems for Intel. From September 1989 to April 1994 (4 years 8 months) San Francisco Bay AreaDirector Marketing @ Simply Hired I...

Software Developer @ consultant for Intel, MSFT, others I developed client/server apps and SQL database systems for corporate clients in Silicon Valley. I worked as a consultant with Microsoft developing mission-critical capacity planning and scheduling systems for Intel. From September 1989 to April 1994 (4 years 8 months) San Francisco Bay AreaDirector Marketing @ Simply Hired I led the marketing team responsible for launch, PR, content, search marketing, metrics, and community. I helped create the Simply Hired brand and voice, and led strategic partnerships with LinkedIn and O'Reilly. I was an angel investor in the Series B round in 2005. The company was acquired by Recruit in 2016. From January 2005 to May 2006 (1 year 5 months) Director Marketing @ PayPal I started and led the PayPal Developer Network program, a community of ~300,000 web and e-commerce developers using PayPal. I managed a team of tech evangelists to deliver education, solutions, content and marketing. I joined PayPal prior to IPO, and stayed for 3 years through the subsequent acquisition by eBay. From September 2001 to October 2004 (3 years 2 months) Visiting Lecturer @ Stanford University I was a visiting lecturer and instructor at Stanford with Prof. BJ Fogg for CS377W, Creating Engaging Facebook Applications. We created and taught the first-ever course on building Facebook applications, and received national news coverage. In 3 months our students created 50 Facebook apps resulting in 20M installs and 1M users. 5 teams had >1M installs, 3 apps were acquired, and 2 teams raised venture capital. From September 2007 to December 2007 (4 months) Founder/CEO @ Aslan Computing I founded and bootstrapped an internet & ecommerce company to $2M revenue and 20 employees in 3 years. Clients included Intel, Microsoft, Netscape, Stanford, and Intuit. The company won Microsoft Partner of the Year, Northern California in 1997, and was acquired by Servinet in January 1998. I continued to manage the business unit profitably post-acquisition, until leaving in summer 1999. From April 1994 to July 1999 (5 years 4 months) Venture Capitalist @ Founders Fund I invested and managed $3M (returned $200M) in two early-stage portfolios: the FF Angel seed fund (part of Founders Fund II) and the Facebook fbFund, an incubator for Facebook-related startups. I made 42 seed-stage investments resulting in 4 unicorns: Twilio (TWLO), SendGrid (SEND), Lyft (LYFT), Credit Karma ($7B acq by INTU); other notable exits included Wildfire ($350M acq by GOOG) and Life360 IPO (ASX:360). From October 2008 to March 2010 (1 year 6 months) San Francisco Bay AreaAngel Investor / Advisor @ 500 Hats I was an investor and/or advisor in ~15 internet startups including: Mint.com (acq INTU), oDesk (NASDAQ:UPWK), Mashery (acq INTC), TeachStreet (acq AMZN), KissMetrics, Jambool (acq GOOG), Twilio (NYSE:TWLO), WePay (acq JPM) and SlideShare (acq LNKD). From September 2004 to October 2008 (4 years 2 months) San Francisco Bay AreaFounder, Managing Partner @ Practical Venture Capital Practical Venture Capital is a microVC secondary firm that provides liquidity for LPs and GPs in early-stage VC funds. We specialize in LP/GP fund interests in microVC funds at years 5-10 (“skip the J-curve”), as well as direct secondary in breakout companies in those portfolios. San Francisco Bay AreaFounder, Managing Partner @ 500 Startups I founded 500 Startups, a global venture capital firm headquartered in Silicon Valley with >$500M AUM and 100+ employees in 20 countries around the world. 500 has made investments in over 2,500 companies across 75 countries resulting in over 15 unicorns and IPOs, including Twilio (TWLO), SendGrid (SEND), Credit Karma (acq INTU), Grab, Ipsy, Udemy, Talkdesk, Intercom, Flywire, Algolia, FabFitFun, The RealReal (REAL), Canva, GitLab, Barkbox, PlanGrid (acq ADSK, $875M), Vungle (acq Blackstone $750M), MakerBot (acq SSYS $400M), Wildfire (acq GOOG $350M), WePay (acq JPM $300M), and Viki (acq Rakuten $200M). From April 2010 to July 2017 (7 years 4 months) San Francisco Bay AreaConference Chair @ O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 Expo (2006-2008): I helped create & co-chair the Web 2.0 tech conference. I organized 60 talks with 100+ speakers, and helped market the event to 10,000 attendees.Graphing Social Patterns (2007-2008): I created a tech conference for O'Reilly on Facebook and social platforms. We produced 3 events attended by >1,000 developers & investors. From July 2006 to June 2008 (2 years) San Francisco Bay Area