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
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.
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.
Linden Lab creates platforms that allow people to create, share, and monetize their own virtual experiences.
Raised $19,000,000.00 from Omidyar Network, Jeff Bezos, Benchmark, Catamount Ventures, Mitchell Kapor and Globespan Capital Partners.
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)
Mattel is a manufacturer and designer of toys and family products.
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.
Deloitte Tax is an advisory firm that provides tax preparation and advisory services.
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!