Started 3 Internet companies (IPRO, Topica & TextMarks); Director at Kana, LinkExchange, Freedom Financial, Odeo and StumbleUpon. BS from MIT. MBA from Stanford
Serial Entrepreneur, 40+ Angel investments with $10 billion in exits including Linkedin, Paypal, Ziprealty, Plusmo, Vamoose, Evite
Ex-CEO of Wikia, Exec at eBay
Partner at Embarcadero Ventures;
VP, User Growth, Mobile at Facebook;
VP, Platform & Monetization at Facebook;
VC at Mayfield Fund, VP & GM, AIM + ICQ at AOL
Distinguished Engineer at Google (One of first 10 employees); PM & Strategy on Gmail, GTalk, Video, Picasa, Orkut, Groups & Mobile. Co-dev of AdSense targeting.
Founder at Larizadeh Capital Partners
Cofounder at Doostang Inc
Vice President at DFJ ePlanet Ventures
Analyst, International Credit Trading at merrill lynch
Co-founder of AngelList and Venture Hacks • EIR at Atlas and Bessemer • Worked on Songbird, Grockit, Kovio • Schooling at MIT • Published in Science • 2 Patents
Silicon Valley internet seed fund & accelerator. 500 team has worked @ PayPal, Google, AOL, Rackspace, Yahoo, YouTube, Mint.com, Facebook fbFund, Founders Fund.
Managing Partner at SoftTech VC (one of the original micro-vcs, before it was fashionable ;). Invested in 125+ companies in 8 years. And really loving it.
Venture Partner at SoftTech VC (with @Jeff Clavier), CEO and Co-Founder of Bionic Panda Games. BD roles at Serious Business (now part of Zynga), Google, and Gaia Online
Founder & Exec Chairman of MediaTrust PerformanceExchange .Founder Internet Media Labs. Technology innovation & social media. Thiel Fellowship Foundation Mentor
Y Combinator runs two three-month funding cycles a year. Each cycle culminates in Demo Day, at which the startups present to the world's top startup investors.
CEO of Socialize. Raised $1.5MM. Founded & sold PointAbout. Profiled in Wall Street Journal. General Electric TLP. Active founder+lifehacker blog. UVa McIntire
Entrepreneur, CNET/CBSi commentator & columnist, startup advisor, former PM. Most recent: Co-Editor & Editor-at-Large of Mashable.
Not gonna stop until we win.
Co-Founder at 42Floors, fixing commercial real estate.
Co-Founder at FlightCaster. Funded by Y Combinator/Sherpalo/Tandem. Acquired in '09.
Blog: humbledMBA
Founding member of the Designer Fund & 500 Startups. Previously Facebook Fund & Venrock. Teach at Stanford design school & former Stanford Persuasive Tech Lab.
Founder at Freshplum, Inc. Recently sold Divvyshot to Facebook. Started first company in high school and grew it to several million dollars in revenue.
Angel investor (Consumer, Mobile, Media, SemTech); Intel Capital; Investor in dots before they become lines; Plot/execute daily assaults on conventional wisdom
Founder Cake Health. Corporate strategy, Seagate. Market research manager, Ipsos (clients: Google, Intel, LG, Sprint, Apple). Santa Clara U., Magna Cum Lauda
Paul is super-smart and fast to make a decision. If you can get his attention, you have a shot.
— Founder of a company Paul invested in
PB has impressive experience and knowledge from almost every position in Silicon Valley: as an engineer, a designer, an investor, a startup guy, and as an adviser. He was one of the main reasons we joined YCombinator, and it was an absolute honor to get a chance to work with him.