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Career Highlights
Awards & Recognition
★Ernst & Young 'Entrepreneur of the Year' award (2000)
★Forbes Midas List rankings (consistently top 20, peaked at #4 in 2015)
★New York Times #3 Top Venture Capitalist (2008)
★Newsweek top 10 angel investors in US
★Fortune 'Rising VC Star'
★Business 2.0 'Tech's New Kingmakers'
Notable Facts
→Co-founder and Partner at First Round Capital since 2004
→Serial entrepreneur with successful exits: Half.com (sold to eBay for $300M), Infonautics (IPO 1996), TurnTide (acquired by Symantec)
→Led seed investments in major companies including Uber, LinkedIn, Square, Warby Parker
→Chairman of The Philadelphia Inquirer board (2015-2024)
→Over 500+ startup investments through First Round Capital
→16 US patents for internet technology
→149.7K Twitter followers
→Wharton School graduate (1993)
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