Andy Price
General Partner at Artisanal Ventures
Andy Price
General Partner at Artisanal Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Founder, General Partner
2021 - Current
Based on extremely successful investments into DocuSign, Confluent, MuleSoft, Snowflake, Amplitude and many others, we have launched a fund to invest in the best performing clients of Artisanal Talent. We look for great companies that we can materially help, and inject strategic senior leadership AND capital into them to fuel growth and success. We also deploy our Limited Partners, who are the industry's greatest collection of superstar operators who built massively successful companies like Snowflake, Crowdstrike, Atlassian, MuleSoft, Salesforce, AWS, etc., to diligence companies and then help Founders scale on our behalf, once we have invested. We are CONNECTED CAPITAL, Re-Defined.
Founder
2018
Started another executive search firm that is a specialists-only platform serving b2b SaaS companies, many of whom are high growth, and venture backed. We also invest in our clients through our venture platform, Artisanal Ventures. Our mission is to be the most beloved executive search firm in the industry, not the biggest. We are keeping it small and ultra high touch and take a much lower volume of business than competitors, which gives us more time to go deeper with clients. By doing this, we not only delight them, but we get a front row seat in studying their business, so if we earn the right to invest in them, we’re better equipped to make excellent choices and enjoy high returns. We only work for top tier venture firms and people we genuinely like. We have two primary practice areas: GTM, and Product/engineering. I don’t lead searches but assist them and advise any Founder in our portfolio of clients on any relevant topic and love to help them close great people. Not going to talk about all the advisory things, because I think that's vain and irrelevant.
Mentor in Residence
2016 - 2018
Mentored founders, got involved in financings, diligence, etc. And learned from some of the best people I've ever known professionally!
Venture Partner
2016 - 2017
Took a break from search and split my time between two of the best venture capital firms around (Redpoint and Index), working with the entrepreneurs they back to shape organization strategies at the Board and C levels, make worthwhile introductions to strategic partners, assess current teams, run due diligence, aim higher to get the best people, bring additional deal flow to the firms, help with fundraising, form companies, etc. Was refreshing to be by far the dumbest person among my colleagues.
Managing Partner and Board Director
2000 - 2016
Spent 16 years recruiting Board, CEO and C-level executives for innovative companies in growth mode. 100% technology focused (SaaS, on-demand economy/subscription economy type co's, security, networking/compute/storage, etc.), mobile, and some consumer related clients. My clients ranged from startups backed by the top 10 venture firms to F1000 public co's. The common denominator has always been that they've been in interesting markets, are innovative, and are run by people I've personally liked and admired. Highlights: --Took over as President when the company was about 2m. Grew the firm from 6 to 60+ people, built a winning business model, generate tens of millions in revenues. Took no outside capital and ran the company profitably every single quarter. --One down year (2009) and every other year has been a record breaker. --Firm is viewed as one of the top 3 mid-sized firms in the country, and one of the best-known in the world. --Since 2004, when we became Schweichler Price, to departing in 2016, it grew 1000+% --Added key partners for CFO practice, sustainability practice, consumer practice, launched all of them from scratch. All are 7 figure producers. Hired almost every Partner there. --co-led the establishment of our firm's LLC, a venture arm through which we invested in clients. --Drove new platform development from proprietary database to open, collaboration-based, SaaS. --Drove the firm's move to 100% SaaS/cloud/GMAIL. Infrastructure costs are negligible. --Co-led the firm's operations ranging from finance to HR to training. It had one of the highest revenue per employee ratio's in the industry. It's also very clean (no lawsuits, no financial issues). --Championed the use of finely tuned performance metrics for everything we did. --Brought in most of the major clients --Did most/all of the marketing, website, etc. --Sold my equity to my Partners to go off on my own and explore venture capital.
Lead analyst to Vice President
1994 - 1999
Small boutique exec search firm based in SF. Worked my way up from analyst to VP. Company merged with Schweichler Associates, which then became SPMB.