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
Allison
Light
GTM
Ben
Cmejla
INVESTMENTS
Breanna
Manore
Operations
Danny
Oliveri
GTM
David
Watson
ENGINEERING
Doug
Hanna
GTM
Graham
Carney
INVESTMENTS
Jason
Lohrentz
TALENT
Jose
Guardado
TALENT
Josh
Hernández
TALENT
Justin
Rosenthal
ENGINEERING
Kristopher
Kostelecky
TALENT + GTM
Marcus
Gosling
PRODUCT
Marie
Vail Guercio
OPERATIONS
Mikey
Wakerly
ENGINEERING
Nicole
Dumitrescu
OPERATIONS
Ross
Wiethoff
GTM
Stas
Baranov
ENGINEERING
He scaled YouTube to 1 billion, and works hands-on with founders to build engineering systems.
Stas Baranov is fascinated by software and people. He has almost three decades of experience building engineering systems, managing organizations of up to 100 people, and investing. With all that, he prefers staying close to the ground level with a hands-on approach to company building.
Portfolio companies
Previous experience
During his more than ten years at Google, Stas led teams to engineer Youtube servers that scaled to over 1 billion users. While there, he also created low-code development platforms that were ultimately adopted by large enterprise organizations.
Gaming
Outside of Google, Stas founded a game development studio, and had another long-running career building out high-performance video game engines that sold all over the world.
For Stas, the work he enjoys most is when he gets to be hands-on with founders, whether that’s offering his technical advice or consulting on a project as an expert in early-stage development.
Highlights
Turning ideas into realities
Founders know that they can come to Stas with their ambitious ideas. Then as a builder, he excels at assessing if it’s possible to make their vision a reality, help build the prototype and take a product from zero to one.
Being a blockchain expert
Stas has become our resident blockchain expert, working closely with our portfolio companies Aqua, Dispersed Labs, Dynaboard, and Garage in their formation stages.
Taylor
Majewski
EDITORIAL + COMMS
Ted
Mao
ENGINEERING
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
Jose
Guardado
TALENT
Justin
Rosenthal
ENGINEERING
Marcus
Gosling
PRODUCT
Mikey
Wakerly
ENGINEERING
Ross
Wiethoff
GTM
Taylor
Majewski
EDITORIAL + COMMS
Phin
Barnes
COFOUNDER
Anthony
Kline
INVESTMENTS
Dan
Pupius
Chief Technology Officer
Alec
Flett
ENGINEERING
Ben
Cmejla
INVESTMENTS
Danny
Oliveri
GTM
Doug
Hanna
GTM
Jason
Lohrentz
TALENT
Josh
Hernández
TALENT
Kristopher
Kostelecky
TALENT + GTM
Marie
Vail Guercio
OPERATIONS
Nicole
Dumitrescu
OPERATIONS
Stas
Baranov
ENGINEERING
He scaled YouTube to 1 billion, and works hands-on with founders to build engineering systems.
Stas Baranov is fascinated by software and people. He has almost three decades of experience building engineering systems, managing organizations of up to 100 people, and investing. With all that, he prefers staying close to the ground level with a hands-on approach to company building.
Portfolio companies
Previous experience
During his more than ten years at Google, Stas led teams to engineer Youtube servers that scaled to over 1 billion users. While there, he also created low-code development platforms that were ultimately adopted by large enterprise organizations.
Gaming
Outside of Google, Stas founded a game development studio, and had another long-running career building out high-performance video game engines that sold all over the world.
For Stas, the work he enjoys most is when he gets to be hands-on with founders, whether that’s offering his technical advice or consulting on a project as an expert in early-stage development.
Highlights
Turning ideas into realities
Founders know that they can come to Stas with their ambitious ideas. Then as a builder, he excels at assessing if it’s possible to make their vision a reality, help build the prototype and take a product from zero to one.
Being a blockchain expert
Stas has become our resident blockchain expert, working closely with our portfolio companies Aqua, Dispersed Labs, Dynaboard, and Garage in their formation stages.
Ted
Mao
ENGINEERING