Josh Elman
Director of Product Management at Apple
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Director of Product Management
2023 - Current
Product Management
2020 - 2023
Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets consumer electronics, personal computers, and software.
Raised $1,170,230,000.00 from KB Securities, Berkshire Hathaway and Microsoft.
Angel Investor / Product Advisor
2009
I advise and/or have invested in several different early stage startups companies that are focused on reinventing media, social, crypto, and apps. I also frequently meet with entrepreneurs informally to discuss product, growth, and social strategy.
Board Partner
2018 - 2020
I continue to support investments I have made with Greylock including serving on the boards of Medium, Discord, and Mammoth Media.
General Partner
2013 - 2018
I have focused on investing in entrepreneurs building new consumer products and services. In particular, I have focused on new social networks and platforms, mobile apps, new media, and marketplaces. I invested in Seed, Series A, and Series B. I led Greylock’s investments in and have served on the boards of Medium, Discord, Musical.ly (acquired by Bytedance, renamed to Tiktok), SmartThings (acquired by Samsung), Houseparty/Meerkat (acquired by Epic), Mammoth Media, and more.
Principal
2011 - 2013
Greylock Partners invests in entrepreneurs that focus on consumer and enterprise software companies.
Board Member
2017 - 2020
Board Member
2016 - 2020
Board Member
2014 - 2020
VP Product
2018 - 2019
Robinhood’s mission is to democratize access to financial markets. I oversaw marketing/growth, design, research, product management, and content (grew to ~50 people). In my time, we more than doubled customers and revenue.
Robinhood is a stock brokerage that allows customers to buy and sell stocks, options, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies with zero commission.
Raised $6,234,466,886.00 from Emergent Fidelity Technologies.
Board Member
2015 - 2019
Houseparty / Life on Air was acquired by Epic Games in June 2019.
Investor / Board Observer
2013 - 2018
Nextdoor is a private social networking platform that connects neighbors for them to exchange helpful information, goods, and services.
Raised $723,800,000.00 from Shasta Ventures, Benchmark, Anthony Noto, DAG Ventures, Pinnacle Ventures, Greylock, Allen & Company, Dave Goldberg, ARK Investment Management and Soroban Capital Partners LP.
Board Observer / Investor
2015 - 2017
Musical.ly was acquired by Bytedance (makers of Toutiao) in December 2017. Musically is now known as Tiktok.
Musical.ly is a video social network for creating, sharing, and discovering short videos.
Raised $150,350,000.00 from Goodwater Capital, SIG China (SIG Asia Investments), Legend Capital, Qiming Venture Partners, KUNLUN, DCM Ventures, GX Capital, Cheetah Mobile, Greylock and Morningside Group.