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Karen Peacock Peacock

Limited Partner at Operator Collective

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Karen Peacock is a Board Member at Dropbox and a Senior Advisor with a background as the former CEO at Intercom and GM/SVP at Intuit, showcasing expertise in product management, B2B marketing, SaaS, and strategic partnerships. With an MBA from Stanford and a BA from Harvard, she has made significant contributions in leading successful companies and investing in startups, including Anrok in Series B funding, while also serving as a Limited Partner at Operator Collective.

Work Experience 

  • Board Member

    2019 - Current

    Compensation & Talent Committee Member, Compensation Committee Chairperson Product & Technology working group

Dropbox is a smart workspace company that provides secure file sharing, collaboration, and storage solutions.

Raised $1,709,215,000.00 from JP Morgan Chase, RBC Capital, Deutsche Bank, Macquarie Group, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and JPMorgan Partners.

  • Limited Partner

    2019

    Operator Collective is a venture fund of expert LPs, bringing together 200+ exceptional tech executives from diverse backgrounds to invest in the next generation of enterprise technology

Operator Collective is a venture fund and dream team community of Operator LPs.

  • Board Advisor

    2022 - 2023

  • Chief Executive Officer

    2020 - 2022

    Intercom is an AI-powered customer service platform with integrated marketing automation serving over 25,000 companies globally, including Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and Atlassian. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Bessemer, Index, Social Capital and ICONIQ. Grew revenue by over 5x in 5 years while also turning the company profitable. Named one of the best private cloud companies by Forbes in their Cloud 100 for the last 6 years in a row. Named one of the best places to work by Inc. Magazine and one of the 100 best places for innovators to work by Fast Company.

  • Chief Operating Officer

    2017 - 2020

    Responsible for all revenue and commercial aspects of the business including all Sales, Marketing, Support, Customer Success, Business Development, Analytics & Data Science and Legal. Co-led Series D financing in 2018, raising $120M at a value of $1.275B led by Kleiner Perkins.

Intercom is a software company that creates modern customer service software that redefines how businesses support their customers.

Raised $240,750,000.00 from ICONIQ Growth, Bessemer Venture Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Google Ventures and Vulcan Capital.

  • SVP Small Business

    2016 - 2017

    Led all of Intuit’s small business products and services worldwide, a $2.5B business including QuickBooks, Accounting, Payments, and Payroll. Responsible for revenue, profit, product, customer base growth and operations. - Grew QuickBooks SaaS revenue ~40% annually. - Accelerated customer growth achieving 41% annual growth, 2M cloud customers, 5M total customers - Expanded globally, built local teams, launched products and grew businesses in 6 new countries. - Responsible for moving >$300B in transaction volume annually through payments & payroll services. - Doubled electronic invoicing and payments in one year with up to 1M eInvoices sent daily. - Cut payments risk losses in half and grew QuickBooks online payments customers by 45%.

  • VP / General Manager

    2014 - 2016

    General Manager of Intuit’s $800M Employee Management Solutions Division. P&L responsibility for this publicly reported division of Intuit. Responsible for US and global payroll services, workers' compensation, and HR products, including QuickBooks Payroll, Intuit Online Payroll and Intuit Full Service Payroll. - Accelerated growth and grew business organically from $600M to $800M in revenue in two years, doubling the prior growth rate. - Launched 2 major new products which grew to $20M in the first two years. - Built the cloud customer base, bringing in 200K new users. - Globalized, expanding beyond the US to launch in 3 new countries. - Led two international acquisitions.

  • Vice President of Marketing and Product Management

    2011 - 2014

    Led marketing then product management for Intuit's $600M Employee Management Solutions division, providing payroll and employee management solutions to 1.3M small businesses, paying 1 in 12 Americans. - Delivered highest rate of new user growth in division history, doubling prior growth record. - Tripled the ROI on marketing programs. - Led Marketing Data & Analytics across Intuit. Partnered with Intuit's Data Science team and Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics) to deliver business growth by developing new insights & tools still used today.

  • Director of Product Management, Marketing & User Experience Design

    2009 - 2011

    Led Product Management, Marketing, and User Experience Design (UX) for Intuit's division focused on solutions to help small businesses get customers and grow. Products included Intuit Websites and eCommerce solutions. - Grew paying customers from 175,000 to over 300,000 and revenue from $35M to $79M in 2 years - Structured & launched partnerships with Google and Verizon, generating $7M in year 1 revenue. - Received CEO Award for Excellence in Leadership, given to ~6 people out of 8,000 employees - Promoted to Vice President in 2011

Intuit Turbo is an app to get financial reports and financial advice.

  • Board Member

    2015 - 2017

    Award-winning startup cloud and iPad Point of Sale solution for single and multi-location businesses. Backed by Welsh Carson Anderson & Stowe. Non-voting member per Intuit policy.

Revel Systems is a cloud-based point of sale and business management platform that helps restaurants and retailers with their businesses.

Raised $189,607,985.00 from Welsh Carson Anderson & Stowe and Welsh Carson Anderson & Stowe.

  • Director of Product Management for QuickBooks

    2002 - 2008

    Led Product Management for QuickBooks, the industry leading small business financial management solution. Successfully fought off Microsoft's entry into the space with Microsoft Small Business Accounting. Drove major product overhaul, resulting in "the best upgrade in years" (CNET) and 5 stars from PC Magazine. Delivered the highest revenue growth in prior 7 years. Developed and brought to market multiple new products from concept to launch. New products generated >$10M in year 1 revenue and won awards from Small Business Computing. - Promoted to Director in 2007 - Promoted to Group Product Manager in 2005

Intuit Turbo is an app to get financial reports and financial advice.

  • Director of Product Management

    2000 - 2002

    Led Product Management for SaaS enterprise software startup funded by Benchmark Capital. Reported to CEO and part of the executive leadership team. Customers included Microsoft, HP, Samsung, British Telecom, Charles Schwab, and FedEx. Company was acquired by Click Commerce.

  • Project Leader

    1994 - 2000

    Led project teams on strategy engagements from 1994-1996 and 1998-2000. Focused on technology, consumer and financial services. Promoted twice and consistently ranked in top 10% of peers.

BCG Securities focuses on wealth management with high net worth individuals.

  • Associate Product Manager

    1997 - 1997

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