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Howdy.  Somehow you've made your way here...

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...to my hiding place on the web.  

Anyhow, I'm an investor at Google Ventures.  

I invest in early stage web & mobile startups, such as Parse (exited to Facebook), Astrid (exited to Yahoo!), Firespotter Labs (they built Uberconference), and Crittercism.  I also invest in and work with companies   solving deep technical problems that will change the world such as CoolPlanet Energy Systems (turns cellulosic waste into negative-carbon high-octane gasoline),  Transphorm (creates next generation power electronics semiconductors), and iPerian (turns skin cells into induced pluripotent stem cells).  I enjoy working with brilliant and creative founders who want to build disruptive businesses.

In a previous life I led the acquisitions of Urchin Software and MeasureMap and worked with an amazing team of founders for several years to start and launch Google Analytics.  I also acquired GrandCentral and Gizmo5 and worked with the founders to build and launch Google Voice.   

In my spare time, I enjoy taking photos, and having adventures in fun places around the world.  I like starting & inventing stuff and somehow discovered that I received a couple of patents (eleven now, I think).  And for some reason a few people found it interesting to write about me on investing and in a book about Google.

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