Awards & Recognition
★California Academy of Sciences Board of Trustees
★Stanford University alumnus
★University of Oxford graduate with MSt
Notable Facts
→Co-founded Eventbrite (NYSE: EB) in 2006 which went public in 2018
→Co-founded Xoom in 2001 which was acquired by PayPal for $1.1 billion in 2015
→Former partner at Founders Fund (2016-2018)
→Co-founder and General Partner at A* Capital since 2020
→Angel investor in PayPal, Airbnb, Pinterest, Uber, Trulia, Skype
→20% of his latest fund invested in teenage founders
→Led SPAC 'one' that acquired Markforged for $2.1 billion in 2021
→Invested 100% of first startup proceeds into PayPal's seed round
→Married to Julia Hartz (co-founder and former CEO of Eventbrite)
→Over 100 angel investments in his portfolio