JG

John Greathouse

Retired UCSB Professor & VC, currently 2x Chairperson

Santa Barbara, California

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Education

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MBA
The Wharton School

Investments

JazzHR

Total Funding: $25M

Invoca

Total Funding: $200M

Coull

Total Funding: $4M

Apeel Sciences

Total Funding: $640M

Connexity

Total Funding: $3M

Work Experience

C

2022

Chairperson & Co-founder
2022

B

2021

Chairperson & Co-founder
2021

CP

CLIQ Products, LLC

2019 - 2024

Chairperson
2019 - 2024

UT

UCSB Technology Management Program

2006 - 2023

Professor
2006 - 2023

EV

Entrada Ventures

2018 - 2021

Advisory Partner
2018 - 2021

HI

2010 - 2020

Board Member
2010 - 2020

R

2014 - 2019

Board Member
2014 - 2019

E

2009 - 2019

Board Member
2009 - 2019

RV

Rincon Venture Partners

2008 - 2019

Partner
2008 - 2019

2014 - 2019

Board Member
2014 - 2019

Latest Articles

Medium•Sep. 2020

Chad & JT Are On The Brink Of Stardom

Social Media Marketing

Medium•Apr. 2020

Virtual Social Loafing: Combating 4 Common Reasons People Slack Off

Entrepreneurship

virtual social loafing

remote work challenges

Medium•Apr. 2020

This 17-Year Is Delivering Food To Boomers In 12 Cities (And He Started 3 Weeks Ago)

Entrepreneurship

Social Enterprise

Medium•Apr. 2020

COVID-19 Almost Killed This Startup — Now It May Save It

Entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons

Medium•Oct. 2019

In 2120, Will Mark Zuckerberg Be Remembered? Heard Of John Mackay?

Entrepreneurship

Mark Zuckerberg

Medium•Sep. 2019

This Company Crushed The Record For The Most Money Raised On Kickstarter — Over $32.4M

Entrepreneurship

Medium•Sep. 2019

Heather Hochrein Is Helping Elon Musk Succeed, While Also Saving The World

Entrepreneurship

Heather Hochrein

Medium•Aug. 2019

Should Gen Z Entrepreneurs Skip College?

Startup Lessons

Entrepreneurship

Hackernoon Top Story

Medium•Jul. 2019

Biddy Mason: Former Slave And One Of The Wealthiest African Americans Of Her Day — And You’ve…

Entrepreneurship

Medium•Jul. 2019

This Remote Working Experiment Failed And Succeeded — Simultaneously

Entrepreneurship

remote work experiment

Medium•Jul. 2019

Happy Fourth Of July Immigrants — The American Dream Is Alive And Well

Entrepreneurship

Medium•Jul. 2019

How Stacy Peralta, Tony Hawk And The Bones Brigade Broke The Rules & Owned The Competition

Entrepreneurship

Hackernoon Top Story

Medium•Jul. 2019

The Father Of Skateboarding, George Powell — Doing Well By Having Fun

Entrepreneurship

Father Of Skateboarding

Medium•Jun. 2019

Why Startups Should Typically NOT Sell To The Government

Entrepreneurship

Medium•Jun. 2019

Startup Stealth Mode Is (Usually) Bullshit

Entrepreneurship

Medium•Jun. 2019

The Case For Unlimited Vacation Time

Entrepreneurship

Human Resources

Medium•Jun. 2019

Product Launch Mistakes Startup Pros Avoid

Entrepreneurship

Product Management

Medium•Jun. 2019

How Can You Tell If Someone Truly Believes In Your Startup?

Entrepreneurship

Medium•Jun. 2019

This Farmers’ Market Side Hustle Is Now In Over 800 Stores — How Did Kelley D’Angelo Do It?

Entrepreneurship

Kelley D’Angelo

Medium•Jun. 2019

This Teenage Immigrant Launched Her Billion Dollar Startup Before She Learned English

Entrepreneurship

Female Founders

Female Entrepreneurs

Medium•Mar. 2019

10 Things This Immigrant Entrepreneur, Who Launched Her Billion Dollar Empire Speaking No English…

Entrepreneurship

Founder Stories

Medium•Mar. 2019

This Woman Rescued Clorox From Bankruptcy When It Was A Failing Startup

Entrepreneurship

Female Entrepreneurs

Medium•Mar. 2019

8 Startup Lessons From “The Founder” Movie — Watch It Before It’s Gone From Netflix

Entrepreneurship

Startup lessons

Medium•Mar. 2019

Meet Martha Harper, The Social Entrepreneur Who Perfected The Franchise Business Model

Entrepreneurship

Medium•Mar. 2019

It’s Shameful That This Woman’s Startup Was Named After Her Husband & His Friend

Entrepreneurship

Women In Business