Jan 2017 – Present · 9 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Script Capital is a preseed venture capital firm focused on being a founding team's first lead check and closest partner from inception through the seed. We lead pre-seed rounds with $500K-$1M lead checks, we're on call 24/7 to support our founders and we're building tools to accelerate a founders' workflows so they can focus on what matters most - building something people want. We happily invest in teams headquartered anywhere.
• Read our Letter to Founders: https://script.capital/notes/founder-letter
• Companies in our portfolio include Gamma, The Graph ($GRT), Openphone, Audius ($AUDIO), Canary Technologies, Transcend, Material Security, Collective, Karat Financial, Sqreen (acquired by Datadog), Replenysh, Passport, Anycart, Feature Labs (acquired by Alteryx), Sheltr (acquired by Hippo). See our portfolio here: https://script.capital

May 2016 – Oct 2018 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Joined by way of our Sparks acquisition. Brought in to help lead new product exploration. Through lots of iteration, ultimately helped define and jumpstart the effort behind Dropbox Spaces, a new smart and collaborative workspace aka "The Shared Folder reimagined".
• I was also fortunate to lead a handful of product teams and got to work with some of the best people I've ever worked with.
• Also ate a lot of delicious food at the Tuckshop.
• Led the teams that conceptualized Dropbox Spaces.
• Led the Mobile product team.
• Led the Ecosystem product team.

May 2014 – Nov 2020 · 6 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco, CA

• Shift makes buying, owning, and selling cars delightful. Listed on the Nasdaq under ticker symbol SFT on October 15, 2020. Originally backed by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Highland Capital Partners, Goldman Sachs, and BMW i Ventures.

Dec 2013 – May 2017 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Paris, France

• A more fun and useful way to share location with friends. $33.7M in funding from Benchmark, Indivest, Xavier Niel, and Kima Ventures. (www.zen.ly).
• Acquired in 2017 by Snapchat for $213M.

Oct 2013 – May 2016 · 2 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco, CA

• Sparks is building a new way for us to express and discuss what we're into. We're funded by Greylock, Redpoint, CAA Ventures and a great group of angels.
• Acquired in 2016 by Dropbox.
• "Sparks aims to fire up mobile conversations" - Liz Gannes, re/code (http://ow.ly/wgt20)
• "We make memes and use gifs to express feelings in ways that words alone can’t capture." - Kim-Mai Cutler, TechCrunch (http://ow.ly/yjuy7)
• "Finally, an App That Makes GIF- and Meme-Making Even Easier" - DJ Pangburn, Vice Magazine

May 2013 – Present · 12 yrs 10 mos · Menlo Park, CA

• Empowering a new generation of content creators. $255M in funding from New Enterprise Associates, Thrive Capital, Index Ventures, DFJ Growth, Charles River Ventures and Freestyle Capital.

Apr 2013 – Apr 2017 · 4 yrs · Mountain View, CA

• Life made simpler - a smart assistant for your phone. Funded by USVP and Mayfield.

Feb 2013 – Oct 2013 · 8 mos

Dec 2012 – Sep 2014 · 1 yr 9 mos · Palo Alto, CA

• Treat yourself while shopping - transforming offline shopping. Funded by KPCB and Greylock.
• Acquired in 2014 by SK Planet for $250 million.

Jul 2009 – Dec 2012 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Palo Alto, CA

• Founded in 2009 with investment from Kleiner Perkins, Reid Hoffman/Greylock and SV Angel, Shopkick aims to transform the way we shop in the offline world by rewarding shoppers along the entire purchase path from the couch to store.
• We launched the service in 2010 and grew to >20 million users, driving >$1.5B sales for retail and brand partners (e.g. Target, P&G, Macy’s, Disney, Unilever) per year.
• Shopkick became the most widely used retail app in the United States in 2012 (Nielsen Report) and was named a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer and one of the Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Retail by Fast Company.
• Acquired in 2014 by SK Planet for approximately $250 million.
• Joined founder Cyriac Roeding on the founding team when shopkick was still incubating in the Kleiner Perkins offices.
• Recruited much of shopkick's early technical team and hired a team that inspired me daily. We were responsible for product management, product design, content merchandising, QA and customer service.
• Led the product development and launch of shopkick in August 2010, which then was named one of Fast Company's top 10 innovative retail apps (http://bit.ly/RfYxEW)
• Led the design and launch of shopkick's Buy & Collect program with Visa and MasterCard, the very first integration with card networks to reward rewards in real-time for purchases at stores such as American Eagle, Crate & Barrel, and Toys"R"Us.
• Led the re-imagining, design and launch of shopkick 3.0 in October 2012, a ground up redesign of the vision that aims to inspire shoppers before the visit with beautiful lookbooks and then delight them at the store with shopkick's innovative walk-in rewards, scan rewards and purchase rewards. (http://usat.ly/Tb7Q2J)

Jan 2006 – Jun 2009 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Mountain View, Ca

• Joined founder Sam Altman on the founding team seven months before initial product launch in 2006 and built world’s leading social mapping service with over 1.5M subscribers across 100+ device models on all major US carriers in 2009. Funded by Sequoia Capital and New Enterprise Associates. First Y Combinator Class of 2005.
• Acquired by Green Dot Corporation in 2012 for $43 million.
• Drove development and execution of product roadmap, growing registered user base 10X and launching Loopt across
• seven carriers and platforms in the US (Sprint, MetroPCS, Verizon, ATT, Android, RIM and Apple).
• Recruited several key engineers, the VP of Engineering and the Director of Consumer Marketing.

Jun 2005 – Jan 2006 · 7 mos · San Mateo, CA

• Hired to work directly for founding President at one of the world’s leading mobile game publishers.

Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 · 1 yr · Stanford, CA

• Class of 2005 Fellow.
• An immersive entrepreneurship work/study program for Stanford undergraduates and co-term students. Each year 12 students are selected to participate in this nine-month program, combining a sequence of courses, mentoring and networking activities, and a paid internship at a Silicon Valley startup.
• https://stvp.stanford.edu/mayfield-fellows-program

Jan 2004 – Jan 2004 · 0 mo