Keith Rabois
Managing Director at Khosla Ventures
Keith Rabois
Managing Director at Khosla Ventures
United States
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Director
2024 - Current
I am back.
Chief Executive Officer
2021
We provide liquidity to Shopify merchants. We absorb and integrate these brands into a decentralized department store.
General Partner
2019 - 2024
Provide capital & advice to the most ambitious founders across the globe. Prefer to invest in seed stage and series A but will lead late stage growth rounds occasionally. Board seats include: Ramp, Faire, Affirm, Aven, Found, Trade Republic. Co-founder/CEO of Openstore. 2022 Midas list #8 globally, #4 US.
Managing Director
2013 - 2019
I invest in technology-driven transformative companies. My investments: https://medium.com/@rabois/investments-led-khosla-ventures-ebe1cfc3ead2 www.khoslaventures.com
COO
2010 - 2013
Selected as the 5th, 1st & 3rd most innovative company on the planet during my tenure. (Fast Company) Joined Square before commercial launch when we had 841 customers testing the product and 24 employees; rapidly scaled to 440 employees, nearly $12 Billion in gross payment volume and several hundred million dollars in revenue. Increased valuation from $40 m to over $3.6 B. Reshaped the payments landscape.
Executive Vice President, Strategy & Business Development
2007 - 2010
--Managed relationships with Facebook and MySpace --Managed corporate communications, corporate development, competitive intel and strategy --Product managed our virtual good payment product --Customer acquisition via paid marketing. Previously, when we sold branded advertising, I managed that for most of our history. I also ran our Top Friends product, engineering, QA (etc) team for a year.
Vice President, Business & Corporate Development
2005 - 2007
LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network. I joined when the company had 1.5 M users, by the time I departed we had increased the user base by 10x. I was hired to develop substantial revenue streams that transcend the recruiting market. My team devised and launched one of the most innovative online advertising concepts since 1999. LinkedIn now offers the precise targeting historically available only via direct mail. LinkedIn Answers is another one of our major initiatives. Ask your network a business research question and you are virtually guaranteed to receive an insightful response. I championed the launch of "public profiles" before any other social network had adopted this tactic, amplifying our growth substantially. I was also the original advocate of premium subscriptions targeted at individual professionals, currently LI's primary revenue source. I managed our corporate communications team 2006-l 2007.
Chief Operating Officer
2003 - 2004
Epoch's initial neuroperformance product, BrightStar, was the best option for the millions of Americans who are afflicted with dyslexia. *Increased Revenue by 450% year/year ($2.8 MM)
Entrepreneur-in-Residence
2003 - 2003
Evaluated and incubated new ventures in the Consumer Internet field, from the sublime to the ridiculous. I developed an innovative and promising Internet venture to revolutionize the residential real estate market, which is still sufficiently interesting to pursue and is substantially more exciting than Zillow.
Executive Vice President, Business Development, Public Affairs & Policy
2000 - 2002
Promoted to manage BD, financial services, competitive strategy, government affairs, and public relations teams; Charged with assessing and resolving risks posed to the viability of the business, including regulatory risks, as well as devising competitive strategy vis a vis eBay and VISA/MasterCard; Supervised relations with external partners, including Providian, Intuit, Wells Fargo, UPS, DirecTV, Microsoft bCentral, and eBay enterprise sellers; Orchestrated multiple substantial public affairs campaigns to complement business strategy, including building a multiparty PAC, lobbying more than 70 Members of Congress and 20 U.S. Senators, as well as presenting PayPal's interests to the DOJ, FTC, Treasury and several state AGs; Impelled product initiatives to meet key strategic objectives, including devising the most profitable product feature for the company in '02.
Education
Investments
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