December 1992 issue of Computer Shopper Magazine recognized in Guiness Book of World Record as Most Ad Pages sold in a Single Issue after notching 802 pages fully paid.

I won the coveted MVP award for kicking ass in sales that month!

Generalist investor in deep technology, single LP, inception/seed to Series A, ~20 investments. Me + 1 partner + 1 Associate. 136% IRR end 2020.

My first formal early-stage investment fund. One LP - Me.

Ran the business side of the org through the IPO, continued as board director for a year after public debut.

Rupert Murdoch convinced me to take over MySpace from Founders...I tried to make it into Social Spotify...Jon Miller wanted to compete with Facebook...so he fired me after 9 months on the job. A place to connect with music, bands and especially people would have been so cool!!!

Original Chief Operating Officer & employee #26, when I left in 2008 Facebook had 1,000 employees, $1bn rev run rate and the valuation had grown from $100mm to $15bn...a decent run.

Started A9 with Udi Manber, an Amazon Company. A9 built search for Amazon.com. I built AdWiser, the paid search platform that powers Sponsored Search results on amazon.com properties.

sold PlanetAll to Jeff Bezos in 1998 when amazon was just a bookstore...left in 2004 after acquiring tens of million of customers running online marketing and the Associates Program, doing billions of $ in deals and several standing ovations at board meetings.

Elon Musk's first start up. I was employee #24. Company was sold to Altavista in 1998 for $320mm in cash (largest cash transaction on web at the time).

Masayoshi Son launched the first Internet venture fund, $300mm, in 1995. I worked on deal flow and diligence.

Bill Ziff invented special interest publishing. I got to work for ZD out of college, Computer Shopper and PC Magazine