The founders we back have courage.
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They obsess, persist, and believe. They are allergic to convention and willing to be ‘wrong’ for a very long time.
We would back any idea they brought to us.
We are technology investors at the earliest stages. And we have a thing.
We assemble world-class engineering teams.
It is every founder’s biggest pain point, and their most important lever.
It is every founder’s biggest pain point, and their most important lever.
We’ve handcrafted our team to up-level how our founders build theirs.
Over the past 20 years, our group has assembled legendary engineering teams from the very early days at some of the most technically successful companies in existence:
Apple
Recruited original engineering teams for iPhone, iOS, Safari, Finder, Mail.
Google
Recruited original engineering teams for Android as well as Site Reliability and Test Engineering for the world’s most visited website.
Meta
Recruited original engineering teams for Ads, Mobile, Growth, Newsfeed, Infrastructure, Data Center, Data Science, Machine Learning.
Pinterest
Recruited original engineering teams for Search, Ads, Site Reliability, Infrastructure, Machine Learning.
PARTNERED WITH LEGENDARY BUILDERS TO ASSEMBLE THEIR CORE ENGINEERING TEAMS:
- Andrew Bosworth
- Chris Cox
- Tony Fadell
- Li Fan
- Scott Forstall
- Vanja Josifovski
- Jay Parikh
- Mark Rabkin
- Mike Schroepfer
- Evan Sharp
- Ben Silbermann
- Yongsheng Wu
- Mark Zuckerberg
Hired or recruited hundreds of company-altering talents, including those who became:
- COO Meta
- CMO Meta
- CPO What’s App
- CPO Pinterest
- CPO Square
- CEO Clubhouse
- CEO Instacart
We were founded by Tim Kendall and Evan Tato in 2021.
Tim is a 20 year technology executive, most recently @Pinterest as President and @Facebook as the Company’s First Director of Monetization. Evan is a 20 year technology investor, most recently @Farallon as Managing Director and Portfolio Manager.
Tim
Kendall
CO-FOUNDER, PARTNER
Early leader at Facebook. Originally developed the Company’s enduring business model. Scaled revenue from zero to $2 billion, users to 600 million. President of Pinterest. Scaled revenue from zero to $500 million, users to 200 million. B.I.’s Top 100 Angel Investors. Advocate of tech for good. “The Social Dilemma.”
Evan
Tato
CO-FOUNDER, PARTNER
Career investor. Early stage, late stage, in-between. Public markets, private markets. Massive companies, one person companies. Across venture capital, hedge fund, private equity vehicles. Deep pattern recognition across every type of business at every stage. GPS for our founders.
Aubrey
Obata
PARTNER
Recruited founding iPhone engineering and design teams at Apple. Led all of Technical Recruiting at Facebook from employee 200. Head of Recruiting at Pinterest from employee 10.
Dale
Dwelle
PARTNER
20 years building 0 to 1 technical teams and large scale technical recruiting programs. Early team at Google, Facebook, Pinterest. Built the acqui-hiring programs at both Facebook and Pinterest.
Ron
Conway
ADVISOR
Founder and Managing Partner at SV Angel. Seed investor in Airbnb, Anthropic, Brex, Coinbase, Doordash, Dropbox, Facebook, Github, Google, Instacart, Okta, Pinterest, Reddit, Slack, Snap, Square, Stripe. Vanity Fair’s 100 most influential people in the Information Age. Forbes Midas list of top deal-makers. “Speaking as an entrepreneur, if I were to start a firm today and could only have one investor, it would be Ron Conway” - Ben Horowitz.
We partner with leaders audacious enough to take on the biggest challenges.
It is rare. And it is exhilarating.
OUR 42 FOUNDERS ARE FOCUSED ON A WIDE RANGE OF IMPORTANT PROBLEMS:
Type-2 diabetes. Quantum Computing. Asteroid Mining. DNA Sequencing. Sustainability. Omnichain Interoperability. Reimagined Social Networks. Clinical Trials. AI Data Integrity. Microbiome Health. L-1 Scalability. Humane Tech. Preventive Health. Next-Gen Music Creation. AI Search and Discovery. Precision Psychiatric Drug Development. Novel Online Marketplaces. Prediction Markets. Bioelectricity. Gen AI Cloud…
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The stakes are high for our founders.
They are for us too.
All capital invested is our own.
So we only answer to our founders and all of our time is spent supporting them.
The less we say about ourselves the better.
John Foley
Founder, Peloton
Evan Sharp
CO-FOUNDER, PINTEREST
Tim Westergren
Founder, Pandora
Biz Stone
CO-FOUNDER, TWITTER
Ben Silbermann
Co-Founder, Pinterest
On Tim Kendall:
“It is rare for operators to oversee zero to $1 billion in scale over only a handful years. Tim has overseen this not once; but twice. It’s hard to imagine someone better equipped to help advise entrepreneurs on how to scale and grow.”
On Evan Tato:
“Evan is an invaluable advisor because he can play across all the key company building domains. He has a reputation for being lights out on strategic positioning, allocating capital, and complex structuring, but he is also a non-linear thinker who can flip a switch and be remarkably creative. You rarely find that in one person. It makes it really fun to work with him and results in a powerful multiplier effect.”
On Tim Kendall:
“Tim was the very first investor to see and invest in the potential of Pandora. Tim led the first institutional investment into the business long before it was a consumer product. He went on to create massive value as an operator. Tim is the rare combination of analytical strength, operating excellence at both small and large scale, and a genuine passion for and understanding of entrepreneurship. He was the first call I made when I launched my second startup.”
On Evan Tato:
“As a key advisor, Evan is as sophisticated as they come. The breadth of areas where he is an A+ is incredibly impressive. Working closely with Evan as early as possible in the company building journey is foundational. I hear that from every founder I introduce to him. And the one two punch of Evan and Tim is special.”
On Tim Kendall:
“Tim was essential to building Pinterest. He was a critical partner to me, from helping scale our organization, to recruiting outstanding executives, to helping us fundraise. Very few investors have the level of business acumen, hands-on operating experience, and strong underlying values that Tim possesses.”
John Foley
Founder, Peloton
On Tim Kendall:
“It is rare for operators to oversee zero to $1 billion in scale over only a handful years. Tim has overseen this not once; but twice. It’s hard to imagine someone better equipped to help advise entrepreneurs on how to scale and grow.”
Evan Sharp
CO-FOUNDER, PINTEREST
On Evan Tato:
“Evan is an invaluable advisor because he can play across all the key company building domains. He has a reputation for being lights out on strategic positioning, allocating capital, and complex structuring, but he is also a non-linear thinker who can flip a switch and be remarkably creative. You rarely find that in one person. It makes it really fun to work with him and results in a powerful multiplier effect.”
Tim Westergren
Founder, Pandora
On Tim Kendall:
“Tim was the very first investor to see and invest in the potential of Pandora. Tim led the first institutional investment into the business long before it was a consumer product. He went on to create massive value as an operator. Tim is the rare combination of analytical strength, operating excellence at both small and large scale, and a genuine passion for and understanding of entrepreneurship. He was the first call I made when I launched my second startup.”
Biz Stone
CO-FOUNDER, TWITTER
On Evan Tato:
“As a key advisor, Evan is as sophisticated as they come. The breadth of areas where he is an A+ is incredibly impressive. Working closely with Evan as early as possible in the company building journey is foundational. I hear that from every founder I introduce to him. And the one two punch of Evan and Tim is special.”
Ben Silbermann
Co-Founder, Pinterest
On Tim Kendall:
“Tim was essential to building Pinterest. He was a critical partner to me, from helping scale our organization, to recruiting outstanding executives, to helping us fundraise. Very few investors have the level of business acumen, hands-on operating experience, and strong underlying values that Tim possesses.”