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Hunter Walk

Founder of Screendoor

San Francisco, California

Overview

Work Experience

  • Co-Founder

    2021 - Current

    Helping the Screendoor team fund and support amazing emerging managers who are changing the face(s) of venture capital

  • Partner, Co-Founder

    2013

    Providing early stage investment, assistance & love to entrepreneurs building companies Investments include ShieldAI, Plaid, Gusto, Chime, Cruise, Bowery Farming and other FinTech, SaaS, API, marketplace, commerce businesses. Learn more at www.homebrew.co & follow us on Twitter via @homebrew

  • Director, Product Management

    2003 - 2013

    2012-13: Evolving YouTube as a platform for social causes, education & change. 2007-11: Lead the product team responsible for building YouTube into one of the world's largest websites. Working with great people to build amazing products for YouTube.com, our monetization, mobile, international and content identification strategies. 2006: Google's video platform/ad+content syndication 2003-06: AdSense

  • Director of Everything Non-Engineering (founding team)

    2001 - 2003

    Created Second Life, a Time Magazine Coolest Invention of 2002 and a leading virtual world with over 15m users. Built (or helped build) product management, product marketing, marketing and communications, live community, business development. Wrote business plan, product overview, funding models. Launched and named product. Led website design. Did first co-marketing deals with Intel, Nvidia, Apple. Negotiated software licenses. Had lots of fun.

  • Corporate Strategy and New Product Development

    1999 - 1999

    Summer between Y1 and Y2 of Stanford B-School. Always wanted to work in a toy company. Part of a small corporate strategy group with a project to help define Mattel's video game strategy. Three major accomplishments: 1. Created video game industry overview and recommended strategy, delivered to CEO and executive team 2. Performed due diligence and successful negotiations for purchase of a genealogy software company 3. Performaned due diligence and preliminary negotiations for acquisition of a Tier 1 video game publisher (public company)

  • Management Consultant

    1995 - 1998

    strategy and ops followed by helping to found our firm's Change Management practice which focuses on people and process. Now w/ hundreds of consultants and tens of millions of dollars in annual revenue.

  • Late Night with Conan O'Brien

    1994 - 1995

    Back in the day we made a go of this crazy late night talk show which no one thought would succeed. One of the highlights of my life!

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