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John Wu
Chief of Staff to the CEO of Patreon
New York, New York
Overview
John Wu is currently the Chief of Staff to the CEO at Patreon in New York, New York. With a background that includes roles at FirstMark Capital as an investor and at Sift as Chief of Staff to the CEO, Go To Market Strategy & Finance Lead, and Business Operations Lead, he brings a wealth of experience in business strategy, project management, and financial modeling to his current position.
Work Experience
Chief of Staff to the CEO
2022 - Current
The first open source 3D Metal Printer
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
FirstMark Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with exceptional entrepreneurs making their mark on the world.
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.
Sift applies insights from a global network of data to detect fraud and increase positive user experience.
Raised $156,500,000.00 from Raison Wealth.
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
McKinsey Growth Tech serves leading growth stage tech players, venture capital, and growth private equity
Private Equity and Strategy Consultant
2013 - 2013
Kurt Salmon is a global management consulting firm dedicated to building the market leaders of tomorrow—whatever tomorrow might look like.
Strategy and Market Intelligence Project Manager
2012 - 2012
World's 1st True Open Source Tablet with the full Source Code down to the kernel level. Designed for Developer and Hackers Alike.
Oral Care Engineer
2011 - 2011
Johnson & Johnson is a healthcare provider, expertise in innovative medicine and MedTech for every patient & for everyone.
Oral Care Engineer
2010 - 2010
Johnson & Johnson is a healthcare provider, expertise in innovative medicine and MedTech for every patient & for everyone.
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