Partner at Homebrew, seed stage VC focused on the Bottom Up Economy. Investors in companies such as Shyp, The Skimm, ManagedByQ, Layer and many other wonderful teams. Previously built products which earn > $1b in annual revenue and generate over a billion daily pageviews. Scale! * Led product @ YouTube for 2007-2011, 40x traffic growth * Managed teams of 40+ people * Founding team member at Linden Lab (creators of Second Life) * Active angel investor and advisor * East Coast guy growing West Coast roots * One wife, one baby, one old house * Stanford MBA, Vassar BA Specialties: product development, product management, product marketing, marketing communications, business development, entrepreneurship, sarcastic quipping, humility

Partner @ Providing early stage investment, assistance & love to entrepreneurs building companies for the Bottom Up Economy. Investments include Shyp, The Skimm, Layer, Managed By Q, Primary, Weave and other SaaS, API, marketplace, commerce businesses. Learn more at www.homebrew.co & follow us on Twitter via @homebrew From January 2013 to Present (2 years 10 months) San Francisco Bay AreaDirector, Product Management @ 2012-13: Evolving YouTube as a platform for social causes, education & change. 2007-11: Lead the product team responsible for building YouTube into one of the world's largest websites. Working with great people to build amazing products for YouTube.com, our monetization, mobile, international and content identification strategies. 2006: Google's video platform/ad+content syndication 2003-06: AdSense From November 2003 to February 2013 (9 years 4 months) Director of Everything Non-Engineering (founding team) @ Created Second Life, a Time Magazine Coolest Invention of 2002 and a leading virtual world with over 15m users. Built (or helped build) product management, product marketing, marketing and communications, live community, business development. Wrote business plan, product overview, funding models. Launched and named product. Led website design. Did first co-marketing deals with Intel, Nvidia, Apple. Negotiated software licenses. Had lots of fun. From January 2001 to October 2003 (2 years 10 months) Corporate Strategy and New Product Development @ Summer between Y1 and Y2 of Stanford B-School. Always wanted to work in a toy company. Part of a small corporate strategy group with a project to help define Mattel's video game strategy. Three major accomplishments: 1. Created video game industry overview and recommended strategy, delivered to CEO and executive team 2. Performed due diligence and successful negotiations for purchase of a genealogy software company 3. Performaned due diligence and preliminary negotiations for acquisition of a Tier 1 video game publisher (public company) From June 1999 to September 1999 (4 months) Management Consultant @ strategy and ops followed by helping to found our firm's Change Management practice which focuses on people and process. Now w/ hundreds of consultants and tens of millions of dollars in annual revenue. From August 1995 to August 1998 (3 years 1 month) Late Night with Conan O'Brien @ Back in the day we made a go of this crazy late night talk show which no one thought would succeed. One of the highlights of my life! From September 1994 to June 1995 (10 months)

MBA @ Stanford University Graduate School of Business From 1998 to 2000 BA, History @ Vassar College From 1991 to 1995