John Wu

Chief of Staff to the CEO of Patreon

Investor
2020 - 2021
Early stage venture capital investor focused on data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning developer infrastructure. Full stack coverage included sourcing, deal execution, diligence, portfolio support, crafting investment theses, and fund internal operations like data infrastructure. Companies invested in or worked on include: Dataiku, Synthesia, Ada, Digital Currency Group, Cockroach Labs, Pigment, Hyperscience, Statespace, Ledger, Helium, ActionIQ, Sketchfab (acq. by Epic Games), Timber (acq. by Datadog), Datakin (acq. by Astronomer), Parametrix Insurance, Coiled, Nextmv, Frame.ai, Estuary, Softr

Chief of Staff to the CEO
2018 - 2020
Built solutions, systems, and processes for scale as we encountered new problems, facilitated the executive rhythm of business, drove alignment across our executive team, and led a range of cross-functional strategic initiatives for the CEO and COO as we scaled to $xxM ARR and 200+ teammates.
Go To Market Strategy & Finance Lead
2017 - 2018
Responsible for scoping initiatives and building infrastructure, sales software stack, and programs. Owned revenue strategy and revenue operations, setting sales quotas and sales compensation, financial planning and strategic finance for go-to-market teams, company-wide business analytics and reporting, and facilitating fundraising ($53M series D)
Business Operations Lead
2016 - 2017
Learned how to work fast and get stuff done in a fast growing usage-driven SaaS company. Led special projects across market sizing, competitive analysis, pricing, product marketing, marketing operations, software tooling and systems, data, analytics and reporting. Early BizOps hire and jack of all trades at then ~45 person, $xM ARR Series B startup.

Business Analyst
2014 - 2016
Learned a lot about how to work with large data sets, craft a strong narrative, and quickly pick up new concepts. Advised C-level executives in mid-to-large size tech and retail companies ($1B-$50B+ in annual revenue) across: - product & corporate strategy - sales operations and capability building - services portfolio development - PE due diligence - digital retail - technology infrastructure and process