David Sacks

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David Sacks is co-founder and general partner of Craft Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm that recently closed its second fund with $500 million in capital commitments. The firm has invested in startups such as Bird, BitGo, Cloud9, Harbor, Lumina, Reddit, SpaceX, Terminal and Wayv.

Previously, David was the founding COO and product leader of PayPal (acquired by eBay). After PayPal was acquired, David created a production company and produced the award-winning independent movie Thank You For Smoking. The film was nominated for two Golden Globes for Best Picture and Best Actor in the Comedy/Musical category, won Best Screenplay at the Independent Spirit Awards, and won Audience Awards at the Munich and Norwegian Film Festivals.

David also founded Geni.com, a family social network and genealogy website. He was founder/CEO of Yammer (acquired by Microsoft) where he grew the company to roughly $60 million in sales, tripling year over year. He led the turnaround of Zenefits as interim CEO. David also co-founded blockchain startup Harbor as an incubation of Craft Ventures. His angel investments include Affirm, Airbnb, Bird, Eventbrite, Facebook, Gusto, Houzz, Lyft, Opendoor, Palantir, Postmates, Slack, SpaceX, Uber, and Xoom.