David Siminoff
General Partner, Venrock (Palo Alto office) Place of birth: Stanford, California Education
David joined Venrock in 2007. His entrepreneurial, operational and investment knowledge and experience makes him an invaluable asset to the entrepreneur. He founded and later sold EastNet, a syndicate barter company, enabling television stations in Eastern Europe to trade American TV programs for advertising time from major brands. David spent nearly a decade in investment research analysis and portfolio management at Capital Research, making early investments in Yahoo!, AOL, Amazon and eBay. He later funded and co-founded 4INFO, a leading mobile search service. Most recently, he served as chairman, president and CEO of Spark Networks, a provider of on-line personal services and the parent company to JDate. "The internet is a beautiful 'literary' math equation: At every node or click, a multiplication happens. Sites which make the world a little better <read: faster, cleaner, clearer...>, multiply 1.0000001 x 1.0000001. Those who make it worse multiply a lot of 0.999999s. When you string a near infinite number of transactions together, you get asymptotes to infinity and zero. The world under the low friction of a global internet is a small, intimately connected village and helping visionary entrepreneurs write the literature of those connections is my mission at Venrock." Active Investments
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