David Thacker

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.