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Social Media 2.0: Rehumanizing Communication
Talks about Social Media, Startups and Content
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Rishi Garg
Partner / Venture Partner at Mayfield Fund
San Francisco, California
Overview
Rishi Garg is a highly accomplished technology executive, investor, and entrepreneur currently serving as an Investor at The Mayfield Fund, with previous leadership roles at Twitter and Square. Noteworthy highlights include leading corporate development and business development at prominent companies like Twitter and Square, as well as making successful investments in companies such as PortalOne and Grove Collaborative.
Work Experience
Partner / Venture Partner
2016 - Current
Led consumer, marketplaces, and commerce practice at the Mayfield Fund. My mission is to back entrepreneurs who are dedicated to building products and companies that can improve millions of lives.
Mayfield is an early-stage VC firm investing in enterprise, deeptech, and human and planetary health companies.
Board
2016 - 2018
Rent-A-Center is a rent-to-own operator that provides ownership of durable products to customers.
Raised $395,906,546.00 from Engaged Capital LLC.
VP Corporate Development and Strategy
2014 - 2015
Led global M&A strategy and deal execution, as well as Twitter's first corporate strategy team and first acquisition integration team. We brought over a dozen amazing companies with talented entrepreneurs into the #flock including TellApart, Periscope, Zipdial, Niche, TapCommerce, and many more.
X is a social networking platform that allows its users to send and read microblogs.
Raised $12,869,191,511.00 from Greenlight Capital, Binance, Litani Ventures, Qatar Investment Authority, Qatar Holding, The Lawrence J. Ellison Revocable Trust, Fidelity, Alwaleed Bin Talal, Sequoia Capital and Vy Capital.
Head of Corporate Development and Head of Strategic Partnerships
2012 - 2014
Started and built corp dev team, and first head of strategic partnerships, during Square's hyper-growth phase from $1Bn - $30Bn+ in GPV. Inventor on one patent. Loved every minute.
Square is a software company that designs and develops omnichannel solutions.
Co-founder and Head of Business
2007 - 2011
FanSnap was the Internet's leading Ticket Search Engine, acquired by Nextag, Inc. in December 2011 and later acquired by Seatgeek, Inc. Founded company while an Entrepreneur-In-Residence at General Catalyst Partners. Hired a highly experienced management team, raised $15.7M in capital, and hired world-class product, engineering and business teams comprising 30 employees. Built most extensive ticket provider network in the industry of secondary and primary ticketing partners from across the broker, aggregator, and advertiser landscape, including StubHub, TicketsNow, Razorgator, and many others. Struck dozens of distribution partnerships including landmark deals with LiveNation and Bing/Microsoft. Built ground-up advertiser network with NFL, NBA, and NHL teams. Issued 2 U.S. patents for inventions of novel search applications.
Entrepreneur In Residence
2007 - 2007
Developed several projects and evaluated a variety of potential investments. Built initial business plan and launched FanSnap while a full-time HBS student.
General Catalyst partners with ambitious founders to drive resilience and applied AI from seed to growth.
Strategic Planning and Business Development
2006 - 2006
In a pre-MBA summer project, I was hired to build the first operating plan and business model for Google PrintAds, and helped develop group strategy and initiate business development efforts with the newspaper industry. I was offered a full-time position to continue to lead these elements of the business.
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Director, Strategy, Business Development and Corporate Development
2004 - 2006
Drove strategic acquisitions, strategy, partnerships, and new business development in the social media, online music, and online video spaces. Helped execute several M&A transactions and defined and drove a new social media product strategy.
Venture Capital Associate, Software and Digital Media
2002 - 2004
Software and digital media investor for early stage venture firm with over $3Bn under management.
Highland Capital Partners is a venture capital firm that offers seed, early and growth-stage funding solutions.
Investment Banking Analyst, Technology Group
2000 - 2002
Executed M&A and corporate financings in the semiconductor, enterprise software, diversified tech industrials, and Internet categories.
Morgan Stanley Venture Partners is a private equity firm that invests in high-growth companies in the technology and healthcare industries.