Benjamin Gadbaw
General Partner at Insightful
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Investor
2014 - Current
Opendoor (IPO 2020)
AngelList is a U.S. website for startups, angel investors, and job-seekers looking to work at startups.
Raised $170,200,000.00 from Beyond Capital, FJ Labs, Nomad Ventures, Kyle Tibbitts, Angel Collective Opportunity Fund, Sprint Vc, Ride Home Fund, Palumni VC, Vishal Rao and Tiger Global Management.
General Partner
2018
Pioneering mixed methods strategic product research and investment firm defining the emerging field of applied research system design. We train teams and instrument systems to provide continuous answers to fundamental customer questions affecting large businesses and startups: • How should we prioritize our roadmap? • What are actionable insights for improving customer retention? • Who are our customers? • How do we mitigate the risk of new ventures and validate new feature development?
Staff Researcher
2020 - 2022
Figma is a collaborative design tool that enables teams to create, prototype, and test digital products on one platform.
Raised $748,624,736.00 from Thrive Capital, XN, Andreessen Horowitz, Alkeon Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Coatue, Goanna Capital, Eddy Cue, Sequoia Capital and SurgoCap.
Senior Researcher, R&D
2019 - 2020
Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Founder and Section Editor
2017 - 2018
• The best articles from The Economist magazine, delivered weekly.
Director of Experience Strategy, Head of Measurement Systems
2016 - 2018
Service Designer
2016 - 2016
A WeWork-backed fund investing in the future of work.
Editor
2016 - 2016
• Content edited Validating Product Ideas by Tomer Sharon.
Designer / Project Lead
2012 - 2015
General Partner
2013 - 2014
An investment fund whose mission is to make positive, sustainable, impact on the world—impact not just for customers, but for the entire ecosystem that makes those products and experiences exist. This balances exponential business growth with positive local and global impact.
Designer
2009 - 2010
Blue Rooster is a technology consulting and experience design firm specializing in creating unique design solutions.
Raised $3,000,000.00 from PFU Limited.