Sarah Leary

Head of Marketing, Community and Global Business Operations (CMO/CBO)

2024 - Current

Venture Partner

2020

Invest and support companies focused on marketplaces, ecommerce, and community. Board member for AltoIRA, Connectly, PurpleDot, Contra, and Airshop.

Member, Board of Directors

2022

Elected to be the first independent board member for the #1 independent sparkling water beverage company with over $300 million in annual sales.

Entrepreneur In Residence

2020

Selected to serve as one of twelve Entrepreneurs in Residence for Harvard University. Advised and mentored entrepreneurial students and alumni from across the university.

Co-Founder and Board Observer

2019 - 2021

Co-Founder and Vice President, Marketing, International, and Operations

2016 - 2019

Founded, built, and scaled the world's largest private social network of neighborhoods used by over 60 million members in over 285,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries (NYSE: KIND) Led all growth, marketing, operations, and global expansion efforts for Nextdoor from the first neighborhood to more than 200,000 neighborhoods, covering the entire United States. Pioneered innovative growth strategies including field marketing, direct mail, performance marketing, and partnerships with over 5,000 public agencies. Built the cross-functional team and led the effort to expand into 10 markets across the globe including the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, and Australia. Grew membership from one member to more than 50 million members with real name and verified identity. Designed the unique community-enabling product experience that allowed authentic grassroots communities to grow organically. Partnered with academic thought-leaders to pioneer tools and product designs (e.g. Kindness Reminder) to combat unconscious bias on the user-generated content platform. Business leader who led cross-functional efforts to scale the company from the initial founding team to nearly 300 employees in the U.S., Europe, and Australia. Scaled company from concept to product launch to member scale to revenue exploration to revenue-generating and on our way to profitability. Helped raise over $400 million in funding from Benchmark Capital, Greylock Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Tiger Global Management, Insight Ventures, Hedosophia, and Shasta Ventures.

Co-Founder and Vice President, Product and Marketing

2010 - 2016

Nextdoor (www.nextdoor.com) is the world's largest private social network for the neighborhood. Using Nextdoor's free online platform, neighbors create private neighborhood websites where members can ask questions, get to know one another and exchange local advice and recommendations. Nextdoor is specifically designed to provide a trusted environment for neighbor-to-neighbor communication. Neighborhoods across the country are using Nextdoor to build happier, safer places to call home.

Co-Founder and Vice President, Product and Marketing

2008 - 2010

Entrepreneur in Residence

2007 - 2008

Vice President, Product and Marketing for Shopping.com

2003 - 2006

Led the effort to create, brand, and launch Shopping.com, the newly formed company that resulted from the April 2003 merger of Epinions and DealTime. Following the launch of Shopping.com in September 2003, moved into the role of Vice President of Product and was responsible for overall product innovation, product management, definition and design for Shopping.com. Named officer for the Initial Public Offering (IPO) of Shopping.com in October 2004. Member of the executive team that successfully completed a $620 million deal for eBay to acquire Shopping.com. Led the cross-functional corporate integration effort to fully integrated Shopping.com in to eBay in the Fall of 2005.

Vice President, Marketing and Product Management

1999 - 2003

As the Vice President of Product Management, led the team of product managers, designers, and product marketers that redesigned, and rebuilt Epinions.com. As the Vice President of Marketing, led a cross functional team to reposition the company as a full service comparison shopping service. The result of this effort was a September 2001 launch of integrated price comparison functionality and eventually sustained profitability. Previously held position as Director, Content and led the 20 person category management team that built out the content and communities that covered more than 30 categories on Epinions.

Associate

1998 - 1999

Sourced and vetted software and internet investments for the $3 billion venture capital fund.