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Founder Real Talk Episode #8 With Barmak Meftah, CEO of AlienVault

In episode #8 of Founder Real Talk, with Barmak Meftah, CEO of AlienVault, we dig deep into how to build a company for a bottoms-up sales model, how to manage a highly distributed company and the importance of hiring greatRead More…

Founder Real Talk Episode #7 with Mikkel Svane, Founder & CEO of Zendesk

Chatting with Mikkel Svane, founder & CEO of Zendesk, made for a fascinating episode. I was fortunate enough to invest in Mikkel along the way, but in this episode we explore the early days of Zendesk and how the companyRead More…

Founder Real Talk Episode #6 with Jackie Reses, People & Capital Lead at Square

Interviewing my long time friend Jackie Reses for Founder Real Talk recently was a thrill. This episode is chock full of great insights and terrific Jackie witticisms. My guest host Crystal Huang and I had a ton of fun talkingRead More…

Congratulations Tray.io on Raising a $14M Series A Financing led by GGV Capital

We’re incredibly excited to announce today that GGV Capital has led a $14M Series A financing in Tray.io. We’re happy to be joined by existing investors and good friends – True Ventures and Mosaic Ventures. We’re sector focused at GGVRead More…

Founder Real Talk Episode #5 With Stewart Butterfield, Founder & CEO of Slack

I had a great conversation recently with Stewart Butterfield, Founder & CEO of Slack, at GGV’s Evolving Enterprise event. Stewart discusses a wide range of topics from the importance of craftsmanship and play as a pretext to facilitate human interaction,Read More…

Congratulations Opendoor on $325M Series E Financing

I’m excited by today’s news of Opendoor’s $325M Series E financing.  The round was co-led by new investor General Atlantic, Access Technology Ventures and Lennar Corporation, the largest homebuilder in the US.  GGV participated in the Series E, along withRead More…

Quick Thoughts on Mulesoft’s $6.5Bn Acquisition by Salesforce

Today’s news that Mulesoft had agreed to a $6.5Bn acquisition by Salesforce marks an intriguing inflection point in the world of enterprise technology.  Here are my thoughts on why this transaction is so important. The Continued Inexorable Force of Multi-CloudRead More…

Top 5 Highlights From GGV Dinner with Domo Chief Product Officer Catherine Wong

This past week, a few of my colleagues and I had the good fortune to host Catherine Wong, Domo’s amazing Chief Product Officer, along with several up and coming product management execs for a Product Management master class dinner.  I’veRead More…

5 Lessons from My SaaStr Panel with the Hashicorp Founders

Today at SaaStr 2018, I had the pleasure of interviewing Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar, co-founders of HashiCorp. Our panel, “From Zero to Hypergrowth: How HashiCorp has Successfully Targeted the Global 2000,” was chock full of great lessons. Having firstRead More…

Congratulations Unravel Data on Raising a $15M Series B Financing

We’re super excited to announce today that GGV Capital has led the $15 million Series B financing in Unravel Data.  We’re happy to be joined in the financing by Microsoft Ventures and existing investor Menlo Ventures.  We’re sector focused atRead More…