I founded Background Capital to invest in early stage startups that become impactful, enduring companies

Previously: early advisor to Instacart ($39b by Sequoia and A16Z) and a first round angel to Blockchain ($5.2b by DST), Webflow ($2.1b by Accel), Clearbit, and Luxe (acq. Volvo). Founding investor at Vercel ($2.5b by GGV). Before that, founding CEO of LearnBoost, which was acquired by WordPress (Automattic). Our team's libraries, like Socket.IO and ExpressJS, helped popularize Node.js
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