Joe Kraus

President

2018 - Current

Transportation accounts for approximately 25% of greenhouse gas emissions. Lime's mission is to positively impact climate change by moving trips from cars to smaller electric vehicles and, in doing so, return cities everywhere to being about their people, not their cars. Lime is the largest global micromobility provider, operating a large fleet of e-scooters, e-bikes and e-mopeds in over 200 cities worldwide. To give a sense of scale, Lime operates more vehicles than the entire public transportation system of the United States, FedEx, UPS or DHL. As Lime's President, I oversee our entire Product organization, including all Hardware design and engineering (we design and build our own vehicles), Supply Chain and Logistics, and all Software product management, research, design and engineering. If you're interested in impacting climate change and helping to develop a business that is having positive impact on the world, Lime is growing quickly, and we're hiring in multiple roles across all product disciplines. We were fortunate to be named one of Time Magazine's Most Influential companies in 2021.

Partner

2009 - 2018

I served for 10 years as a General Partner at GV, joining the firm in its founding year and helping to scale it up in its early years with a focus on recruiting partners as well as building key operating teams around design and recruiting. On investments, I was focused primary on Marketplaces with companies such as StockX and Peerspace, and Transportation with companies such as Turo, KeepTruckin', Flock Freight and Lime.

Director of Product Management

2006 - 2009

Board Member

2005 - 2012

CEO

2003 - 2006

CEO of JotSpot, the application wiki company. JotSpot offers a wiki ASP that allows you to centralize unstructured information inside your company. Also, using JotSpot users can built lightweight web-based applications to manage custom business processes.

Founder

2002 - 2005

Founded DigitalConsumer.org, a 50,000 person political lobbying organization to fight for consumer and technology rights in digital copyright reform.

Founder

1993 - 2000

I co-founded one of the first Internet search engines in 1993, took the company public in 1996, and sold the company in 2000 in a $6.7Bn transaction. I was the founding CEO and I primarily led the product organization including engineering, product management, design and user research.