Invests in
Locations:
Min Investment:
$100,000.00Max Investment:
$5,000,000.00Target Investment:
$1,500,000.00
Skills
Education
Lists including Laszlo
Investments
NinjaTech AI
Total Funding: $6M
BrightHire
Total Funding: $37M
Vincent
Total Funding: $8M
Blendoor
Total Funding:
IVY
Total Funding: $14M
Guardant Health
Total Funding: $550M
Honor
Total Funding: $20M
Addepar
Total Funding: $360M
Boatbound
Total Funding: $4M
Evolv
Total Funding: $39M
Work Experience
Board Member
2024
Co-Founder and Co-Faculty Director of the Berkeley Transformative CHRO Academy
2024
2017
Investor, Coach and Producer
2017
TECHNOLOGY INVESTING/ADVISING 55% unicorn rate and 80% unicorn/exited rate across all investments. THEATER AND FILM INVESTING/PRODUCING Tony Award winner/nominated: & Juliet, Almost Famous (Exec Producer), Days of Wine and Roses (Exec Producer), Sister Act, The Notebook (Exec Producer) Documentary films: Folktales, Gaucho Gaucho (Exec Producer - Sundance Award winner), Move Ya Body: The Birth of House, and Rapinoe (Exec Producer)
2019 - 2025
Co-Founder and Board Chair
2019 - 2025
Acquired by NVIDIA in 2025. The synthetic data platform purpose-built for AI.
2017 - 2023
Co-Founder, CEO and Board Chair
2017 - 2023
Acquired by Perceptyx in 2023. Making work better for everyone, everywhere through science, machine learning, and a little bit of love.
2020 - 2022
Board Member and Chair, HR and Compensation Committee
2020 - 2022
2017 - 2021
Advisory Board Member
2017 - 2021
Co-founded by Vice President Al Gore, our vision is a sustainable world in which prosperity is shared broadly, in a society that achieves wellbeing for all, protects nature and preserves a habitable climate.
2006 - 2016
SVP, People Operations (CHRO) / Executive Committee Member
2006 - 2016
First head of People Operations for Google/Alphabet. 3 CEOs. 15x revenue growth. 12x headcount growth. >200 acquisitions. 150+ POps alumni who have since become CHROs. Google Job Search. People Analytics. Project Oxygen. Project Aristotle. Project Cerebro. DEI. Re:Work. 3M applicants per year. LGBTQ global benefits. Death benefits. Many, many centi-threads.
2015 - 2015
Author, WORK RULES!
2015 - 2015
Required textbook at Stanford, Harvard, Berkeley, Wharton, USC, Berklee College of Music and other universities. 100% of book income donated to charity. "A bold, inspiring, and actionable vision that will transform the future of work. It should be mandatory reading for everyone who leads, manages, or has a job."―Adam Grant "A dazzling revelation: at once an all-access backstage pass to one of the smartest organizations on the planet, and also an immensely useful blueprint for creating a culture of creativity."―Dan Coyle, author of The Talent Code "A remarkable book that reveals the secrets of becoming a talent powerhouse. He shows the many benefits of a high freedom culture with a mission that matters."―Dan Pink, author of Drive and To Sell Is Human
2003 - 2006
VP, Human Resources
2003 - 2006