Hunter Walk

Homebrew

Providing early stage investment, assistance & love to entrepreneurs building companies

Investments include ShieldAI, Plaid, Gusto, Chime, Cruise, Bowery Farming and other FinTech, SaaS, API, marketplace, commerce businesses.

Learn more at www.homebrew.co & follow us on Twitter via @homebrew

Partner, Co-Founder

Screendoor

Helping the Screendoor team fund and support amazing emerging managers who are changing the face(s) of venture capital

Co-Founder

Google

2012-13: Evolving YouTube as a platform for social causes, education & change.
2007-11: Lead the product team responsible for building YouTube into one of the world's largest websites. Working with great people to build amazing products for YouTube.com, our monetization, mobile, international and content identification strategies.
2006: Google's video platform/ad+content syndication
2003-06: AdSense

Director, Product Management

Linden Lab

Created Second Life, a Time Magazine Coolest Invention of 2002 and a leading virtual world with over 15m users.

Built (or helped build) product management, product marketing, marketing and communications, live community, business development. Wrote business plan, product overview, funding models. Launched and named product. Led website design. Did first co-marketing deals with Intel, Nvidia, Apple. Negotiated software licenses. Had lots of fun.

Director of Everything Non-Engineering (founding team)

Mattel

Summer between Y1 and Y2 of Stanford B-School. Always wanted to work in a toy company. Part of a small corporate strategy group with a project to help define Mattel's video game strategy. Three major accomplishments:

1. Created video game industry overview and recommended strategy, delivered to CEO and executive team

2. Performed due diligence and successful negotiations for purchase of a genealogy software company

3. Performaned due diligence and preliminary negotiations for acquisition of a Tier 1 video game publisher (public company)

Corporate Strategy and New Product Development

Deloitte Consulting

strategy and ops followed by helping to found our firm's Change Management practice which focuses on people and process. Now w/ hundreds of consultants and tens of millions of dollars in annual revenue.

Management Consultant

Back in the day we made a go of this crazy late night talk show which no one thought would succeed. One of the highlights of my life!

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Funding Startups via Homebrew and new VCs via Screendoor LP

Started Homebrew to back startups in their earliest days. Such as Chime, Plaid, Gusto, ShieldAI, Finix, Noyo, Adonis, Cruise and other fintech, SaaS, machine learning, AI, computer vision businesses.

Started Screendoor LP to back the most exciting new VC firms who are building differentiated strategies based on their identities, networks and lived experiences. Such as ex/ante, sunflower, voyager, and many more. 

Previously built products which earn > $1b in annual revenue and generate over a billion daily pageviews. Scale!

East Coast born, West Coast rooted. One wife, one baby, one dog

Partner

"When I look around, I see hundreds of billions of dollars being spent on hardware – GPUs, data centers, and power stations. What I don’t see are people waving large checks at ML infrastructure engineers like me and my team."

via Pete Warden

Open article: I Know We’re in an AI Bubble Because Nobody Wants Me 😭 by petewarden.com

I Know We’re in an AI Bubble Because Nobody Wants Me 😭

Bilal Aijazi‏

Polly

Polly is building the team engagement platform for modern work. Funded by Madrona Venture Group, Amplify Partners, Fathom Capital, Slack Fund, Zoom App Fund, SV Angel, Techstars and more!

https://www.polly.ai

CEO and Co-Founder

CTO and Co-Founder

Projected Talent Inc.

Projected Talent is an online marketplace that lets employers connect to students on micro-internships.

Winner of UW Business Plan Competition in 2014

Various Startup Ventures

Build, grow, fail, repeat...learning by doing

Tinkerer

Talkray

Employee #2 at mobile communication startup whose flagship product is Talkray (http://talkray.com). Worked primarily on iOS and Android with some server side code thrown in too. Company has over 30 million users and was funded by YCombinator (W12) and General Catalyst.

Software Engineer

Microsoft

Software development and testing for Windows. Specifically working on:
- Network security and remote access technologies, including DirectAccess (8/2006 - 3/2010)
- Kernel Hardware Abstraction Layer and device drivers for Windows on ARM (3/2010 - 10/2011)

Software Development Engineer in Test

Technology oriented founder with experience building for millions of users

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