Daniel
Portillo
COFOUNDER
Team
Daniel
Phin
Barnes
COFOUNDER
Megan
Zengerle
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
Anthony
Kline
INVESTMENTS
Bret
Reckard
TALENT
Dan
Pupius
Chief Technology Officer
Rifki
Zable
Chief Financial Officer
Alec
Flett
ENGINEERING
He built Google's Knowledge Graph, and likes to bridge the gap between how people and computers think.
Alec built his entire career around mapping the messy, real, and human world into software. He’s fascinated by the contrast between how people think about the world and the way that computers try to model it.
Portfolio companies
Previous experience
Metaweb
As an Architect at Metaweb,Alec helped build a graph-based query language and then a dynamic, introspective UI on top of it. That’s where he got hooked on using data to create user-friendly interfaces.
Alec’s work at Metaweb was eventually rolled into Google, where it lives on today in the Google Knowledge Graph. While there, Alec eventually ended up on the Google Consumer Surveys team, where he was again taking structured data and creating accessible visualizations for large sets of users.
UrbanFootprint
Alec joined UrbanFootprint, an urban planning startup, as the Founding Lead Engineer, where his focus was on front-end development. During his time there, he built out a rich geospatial application to help users figure out how to adapt cities for growth.
For Alec, the work he enjoys most as a builder is when he gets to take on the challenge of implementing a user interface that matches a person’s mental model, rather than just reflecting backend infrastructure.
Highlights
Making raw technology more human
Our human mental model of the world is structured differently than the way computers represent it, so Alec likes to work through all the weird, anomalous, and real-world ways humans think when he’s building software.
Giving founders hope that hard things can be done
When Alec started working with our portfolio company, The Public Health Company, he built a lightweight platform that could track patients and their relationships and spread of disease. It helped the company narrow down what their product was going to be (and not be) since they were able to quickly experiment with a lightweight app.
Navigating new product areas
Alec has dug into several different industries at TheGP, where he likes to learn the “weird things he should worry about” in each industry. Then, he figures out how to solve those problems through technical abstractions.
Allison
Light
GTM
Ben
Cmejla
INVESTMENTS
Breanna
Manore
Operations
Danny
Oliveri
GTM
David
Watson
ENGINEERING
Doug
Hanna
GTM
Graham
Carney
INVESTMENTS
Daniel
Portillo
COFOUNDER
Megan
Zengerle
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
Bret
Reckard
TALENT
Rifki
Zable
Chief Financial Officer
Allison
Light
GTM
Breanna
Manore
Operations
David
Watson
ENGINEERING
Graham
Carney
INVESTMENTS
Phin
Barnes
COFOUNDER
Anthony
Kline
INVESTMENTS
Dan
Pupius
Chief Technology Officer
Alec
Flett
ENGINEERING
He built Google's Knowledge Graph, and likes to bridge the gap between how people and computers think.
Alec built his entire career around mapping the messy, real, and human world into software. He’s fascinated by the contrast between how people think about the world and the way that computers try to model it.
Portfolio companies
Previous experience
Metaweb
As an Architect at Metaweb,Alec helped build a graph-based query language and then a dynamic, introspective UI on top of it. That’s where he got hooked on using data to create user-friendly interfaces.
Alec’s work at Metaweb was eventually rolled into Google, where it lives on today in the Google Knowledge Graph. While there, Alec eventually ended up on the Google Consumer Surveys team, where he was again taking structured data and creating accessible visualizations for large sets of users.
UrbanFootprint
Alec joined UrbanFootprint, an urban planning startup, as the Founding Lead Engineer, where his focus was on front-end development. During his time there, he built out a rich geospatial application to help users figure out how to adapt cities for growth.
For Alec, the work he enjoys most as a builder is when he gets to take on the challenge of implementing a user interface that matches a person’s mental model, rather than just reflecting backend infrastructure.
Highlights
Making raw technology more human
Our human mental model of the world is structured differently than the way computers represent it, so Alec likes to work through all the weird, anomalous, and real-world ways humans think when he’s building software.
Giving founders hope that hard things can be done
When Alec started working with our portfolio company, The Public Health Company, he built a lightweight platform that could track patients and their relationships and spread of disease. It helped the company narrow down what their product was going to be (and not be) since they were able to quickly experiment with a lightweight app.
Navigating new product areas
Alec has dug into several different industries at TheGP, where he likes to learn the “weird things he should worry about” in each industry. Then, he figures out how to solve those problems through technical abstractions.
Ben
Cmejla
INVESTMENTS
Danny
Oliveri
GTM
Doug
Hanna
GTM