Stas Baranov
Principal at The General Partnership
Stas Baranov
Principal at The General Partnership
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Principal / LP
2022 - Current
I spearhead Blockchain advisory and engineering across our portfolio of companies. As a group, we believe the notion of partnership in venture capital should be defined by the work we do together. In addition to our time and domain expertise, we invest meaningful capital to amplify our support and grow our share in the success of companies we partner with.
Principal / LP
2021
We are a new kind of investor that invests expertise and time, and certainly capital, in exchange for equity. Collectively, we are a team of highly experienced operators; entrepreneurs and technologists; founders with decades of building highly successful companies, launching products used by millions, and creating billions of dollars in commercial value.
Chief Technology Officer
2020 - 2021
I built the first prototype of the product with one other engineer who reported to me. Achieved extremely high real-time performance by employing memory pooling strategies, parallelizing the AI, and network latency extrapolation. I designed the overall architecture, established development practices, and selected creatives to continue growing the product.
Staff Tech Lead Mgr
2007 - 2020
Ten year Google veteran responsible for several technology products. Notably, led ground-up redesign of Youtube streaming servers with 1 billion users, architected big data solutions for datacenter storage optimization that delivered Petabytes of savings, and co-founded a low-code development platform adopted by numerous large enterprises.
Chief Executive Officer
2018 - 2019
Started and ran a profitable mortgage lending company that helped borrowers own homes after the subprime crisis. Built and traded automated algorithmic systems in cryptocurrencies and commodity futures (oil, gold, indexes).
Engine Team Lead
2000 - 2007
Led the team responsible for shared engine technology across multiple video game properties. Shipped five worldwide titles, including Lara Croft: Tomb Raider Legend. Owner of proprietary language compiler, debugger, virtual machine, high-performance foundational libraries and online matchmaking backend.
Founding Partner
1999 - 2000
Started a video game company that released an award winning title signed and distributed by multiple publishers in European and Asian markets. As chief executive, personally created the vision, hired talent, and was ultimately responsible for all day-to-day decisions.
Engineering Director
1994 - 1999
As part of world's biggest private educational company, I founded New Computer Technologies Department and grew it to hundred of workers who developed proprietary multimedia technology and created a lineup of software products utilized in several countries.