David Thacker
VP Product at Google DeepMind
San Francisco Bay Area
Invests in
Locations:
Min Investment:
$500,000.00Max Investment:
$200,000,000.00Target Investment:
$25,000,000.00
Skills
Education
Lists including David
Investments
Airspeed
Total Funding: $5M
HeadRace
Total Funding: $6M
Curated
Total Funding: $180M
Pragma Platform
Total Funding: $38M
Wealthsimple
Total Funding: $700M
AmplifyMD
Total Funding: $28M
Magical
Total Funding: $41M
Truework
Total Funding: $98M
1000memories
Total Funding: $3M
Work Experience
2024
Vice President, Product
2024
Building AI responsibly to benefit humanity.
2020 - 2024
Venture Partner
2020 - 2024
Greylock is an early-stage venture capital firm that has backed startups such as Airbnb, LinkedIn, Meta, Roblox, Figma, Palo Alto Networks and Workday. I led Investments in startups and partnered with exceptional founding teams.
2017 - 2020
Vice President, Product Management & User Experience
2017 - 2020
Returned to Google to help build the emergent Google Cloud business. Led the product, UX, and data science teams for Google Workspace, which is the suite of productivity apps that includes Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Meet & Voice.
2013 - 2017
Vice President, Product
2013 - 2017
Led the teams building products for LinkedIn's various businesses, including hiring & recruiting solutions, sales tools, consumer subscriptions, and advertising products. Helped scale the company through an acquisition by Microsoft in 2016.
2011 - 2013
Vice President, Product Management & General Manager
2011 - 2013
Led product development for AI & marketplace products. During this time, Groupon was one of the fastest growing companies in history and had an IPO.
2009 - 2011
Associate Partner
2009 - 2011
Investor and advisor to early stage technology startups including Pandora (acquired by SiriusXM), Redfin (IPO), Cloudera (IPO), TellApart (acquired by Twitter), Gowalla (acquired by Facebook) and 1000Memories (acquired by Ancestry).
2003 - 2008
Group Product Manager
2003 - 2008
Served as a product lead for AdWords, and built advertising products used by millions of businesses worldwide. During this time, Google had an IPO and grew revenue 14x to $21B. I also relocated to the London office for two years to build Google’s R&D teams in Europe.
1997 - 2001
Software Engineer / Consulting Team Manager
1997 - 2001
Played various technical roles at this e-commerce software startup and helped scale it through an IPO.