Entrepreneur. Investor. Writer.
New York, New York
Investor @ Lazerow Ventures Fund for all my personal tech investments, which include Buzzfeed, Namely, Scopely, Braze and about 50 others. You can learn more here: https://www.lazerow.com Greater New York City AreaGM. GOLF.com @ Time Inc. After sale of GOLF.com to Time Inc., headed up the online golf efforts for Time Inc. and GOLF MAGAZINE. From January...
Investor @ Lazerow Ventures Fund for all my personal tech investments, which include Buzzfeed, Namely, Scopely, Braze and about 50 others. You can learn more here: https://www.lazerow.com Greater New York City AreaGM. GOLF.com @ Time Inc. After sale of GOLF.com to Time Inc., headed up the online golf efforts for Time Inc. and GOLF MAGAZINE. From January 2006 to April 2007 (1 year 4 months) CEO, Founder @ GOLF.com and GolfServ Founder, CEO of multi-million dollar profitable golf media property. Negotiated and executed sale of company to Time Warner's Time Inc. division generating an 800%+ return for investors. From January 1999 to January 2006 (7 years 1 month) Chief Strategy Officer @ Salesforce Joined the Salesforce management team after the sale of Buddy Media. I served as Salesforce's Chief Strategy Officer and, before that, Chief Marketing Officer of the marketing software division. During my three years at the company, Salesforce grew its annual revenue run rate to $6 billion from $2 billion and was named the most innovative company in the world by Forbes Magazine for three consecutive years. From August 2012 to September 2015 (3 years 2 months) Greater New York City AreaBuddy Media, Founder, Chairman, CEO @ Salesforce Founded Buddy Media with my wife, Kass, and sold it to Salesforce.com less than 5 years later for about $800M.The company is now the foundation of the Salesforce Marketing Cloud. From October 2007 to August 2012 (4 years 11 months) New York, NYPresident and Founder @ University Wire/Student Advantage As a sophomore at Northwestern University, founded University Wire, an Associated Press-like network of more than 700 student-run newspapers that provides the most in-depth coverage of campus news and student issues.Sold U-Wire to Student Advantage. As a member of the Student Advantage management team, helped grow Student Advantage from a handful of employees into the premier media and marketing company in the college market with hundreds of employees and $80M+ in annual revs. From 1994 to 1999 (5 years) Partner @ Velvet Sea Ventures Velvet Sea Ventures is a multi-stage venture capital firm that helps entrepreneurs turn their visions into reality. With more than 80 years of combined experience as founders and venture investors and more than $2.2 billion invested, the firm provides seed-to-growth stage capital investments coupled with strategic support across all sectors. Velvet Seas partners’ past investments include such notable companies as Twitter (TWTR), Square (SQ), SpaceX, Snap Inc. (SNAP), Facebook (FB), Pinterest (PINS), Domo (DOMO), Buzzfeed, Namely, Eaze, Braze and Map Anything (CRM). New York, New York, United StatesCofounder @ shape matrix The Shape Matrix system uses geometric shapes to generate an inexhaustible number of visually appealing 2D and 3D marks – Shapetags – that serve as secure, serialized, hard-to-clone identifiers for physical and digital objects. Shapetags are easily recognized by the human eye, quickly authenticated with off-the-shelf mobile devices and impossible to decode without authorized access.
Lazerow Ventures
Investor
Greater New York City Area
Time Inc.
GM. GOLF.com
January 2006 to April 2007
GOLF.com and GolfServ
CEO, Founder
January 1999 to January 2006
Salesforce
Chief Strategy Officer
August 2012 to September 2015
Greater New York City Area
Salesforce
Buddy Media, Founder, Chairman, CEO
October 2007 to August 2012
New York, NY
University Wire/Student Advantage
President and Founder
1994 to 1999
Velvet Sea Ventures
Partner
New York, New York, United States
shape matrix
Cofounder
Fund for all my personal tech investments, which include Buzzfeed, Namely, Scopely, Braze and about 50 others. You can learn more here: https://www.lazerow.com Fund for all my personal tech investments, which include Buzzfeed, Namely, Scopely, Braze and about 50 others. You can learn more here: https://www.lazerow.com
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