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Career Highlights
Awards & Recognition
★Forbes Midas List - 8 times (2010-present)
★Fortune Magazine Rising Star award
★Harvard Business School profile for entrepreneurship contributions
Notable Facts
→Co-founding Partner at Floodgate, pioneering seed-stage VC firm founded 2006
→Early investor in Twitter, Twitch, Lyft, Okta, Applied Intuition - transformative companies
→Forbes Midas List member 8 times, recognized as top tech investor
→Author of bestselling book 'Pattern Breakers' (2024), called 'most important startup book in 10 years' by Steve Blank
→Host of popular 'Starting Greatness' podcast with Silicon Valley legends
→Former entrepreneur with two IPO exits: Tivoli Systems (acquired by IBM) and Motive Communications (acquired by Alcatel-Lucent)
→Stanford engineering degree, Harvard MBA
→108K+ Twitter followers, active thought leader
→Coined term 'Thunder Lizards' for disruptive companies
→Regular speaking circuit including conferences and university events
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