David Thacker
Vice President, Product at Google DeepMind
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Vice President, Product
2024 - Current
Venture Partner
2020
Greylock is a leading venture capital firm that has been an early backer of startups such as Airbnb, LinkedIn, Facebook, Coinbase, Roblox, Figma and Workday. I partner with founders from idea to IPO. My investment focus areas include SaaS, marketplaces, fintech, and AI.
Greylock Partners invests in entrepreneurs that focus on consumer and enterprise software companies.
Vice President, Product Management & User Experience
2017 - 2020
Returned to Google to help build the emergent Google Cloud business. Led the product and UX teams for Google's collaboration and productivity apps (GSuite/Google Workspace) including Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Meet, Voice and several others. During my tenure, focused on launching AI-powered product features, scaling consumer usage, and driving business adoption.
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Vice President, Product
2013 - 2017
Led teams building products for LinkedIn's various business lines, including hiring/recruiting solutions, sales & marketing tools, consumer subscriptions, and LinkedIn's advertising platform. My teams created AI-powered product features leveraging LinkedIn's unique data and social graph. Microsoft acquired LinkedIn for $26B in 2016.
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Vice President, Product Management & General Manager
2011 - 2013
I joined Groupon pre-IPO to help build the R&D office in Silicon Valley and lead product development for AI & marketplace products including personalization, search, and inventory management. During this time, Groupon rapidly expanded, growing annual revenue to $2.5B with 40M+ customers across 43 countries.
Groupon is a deal-of-the-day website that offers discounted gift certificates usable at local or national companies.
Raised $1,387,000,000.00 from MIG Capital, RTP Global and Atairos.
Associate Partner
2009 - 2011
Investor and advisor to early stage technology startups. I played a key role in Greylock's investments in Pandora (acquired by SiriusXM), Redfin (Nasdaq:RDFN), Cloudera (NYSE:CLDR), TellApart (acquired by Twitter), Gowalla (acquired by Facebook) and 1000Memories (acquired by Ancestry).
Greylock Partners invests in entrepreneurs that focus on consumer and enterprise software companies.
Group Product Manager
2003 - 2008
Joined Google pre-IPO and served as a product lead for AdWords (Google's flagship advertising product). Built products ultimately used by millions of businesses worldwide and during this time we scaled ad revenue 14x to $21B. I also relocated to London for two years to build Google’s product team in Europe and serve as Google’s senior advertising product executive in the region.
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Software Engineer / Consulting Team Manager
1997 - 2001
pcOrder was a B2B software startup that provided AI-powered ecommerce solutions. I joined as an early employee and served in various technical roles, helping build the company through an IPO and later acquisition by Trilogy.