We invest in rogue
entrepreneurs – we believe that to create anything that will endure, grow, persevere, accomplish and last, you have to be rogue.
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Christopher Golda Founder + Managing Partner
I'm a former engineer, founder, and operator turned early–stage investor based in San Francisco. My last venture, BackType, was a SaaS analytics company that helped quantify the marketing value of social media, backed by Y Combinator, True Ventures, Lowercase Capital, and more. In 2011, BackType was acquired by Twitter (NYSE: TWTR), where I helped launch Promoted Tweets and ran the Ad Center as Twitter grew from 300 to 3,000+ employees and went public. I've also served as an Advisor to Menlo Ventures and Y Combinator's Startup School.
At my last startup, we were obsessed with building a top 0.01% talent team and engineering–centric culture. What other companies did with entire teams, BackType did with single engineers. The distributed data processing work we did to build the BackType product became the basis for the Lambda Architecture. We also open sourced, Apache Storm, a distributed realtime computation system developed at BackType.
Today, I focus on investing in top 0.01% entrepreneurs attacking large problems with 10X+ products.
IMG: PNG, Sep ’18. Cinzia Bruschini.