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Steven Sinofsky
Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
United States
Overview
Steven Sinofsky is an experienced business and product development leader, currently serving as a Board Member at Everlaw and an Advisory Board Member at Tanium. He has held key roles at Microsoft, including President of the Windows Division and Senior Vice President of Windows and Office product development. Sinofsky is also an accomplished author and investor, having invested in companies like Everlaw, Box, and Product Hunt.
Work Experience
Board Member
2016 - Current
Board member representing Andreessen Horowitz in the firm's investment. http://a16z.com/2016/01/14/everlaw/
Everlaw offers a platform for document analysis to law firms, government, and corporations.
Raised $298,604,995.00 from TPG Growth, CapitalG, K9 Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, H.I.G. Growth Partners and Menlo Ventures.
Advisory Board Member
2014
Board member representing Andreessen Horowitz investment in company. http://a16z.com/2014/06/22/tanium-magic/
Tanium is an IT security firm that provides risk management, incident response, EDR, and patch management services.
Raised $1,049,991,919.00 from Fidelity, Baillie Gifford, T. Rowe Price, Salesforce Ventures, SharesPost Investment Management, Wellington Management, Baillie Gifford and Adage Capital Management.
Board Partner
2013
Serve on boards for select portfolio companies representing the firm as determined by investing partners. Assist and advise portfolio companies as they scale with management and strategy, mentoring, advising. https://venturebeat.com/2013/08/22/former-windows-guru-steven-sinofsky-joins-andreessen-horowitz-as-board-partner/
Andreessen Horowitz is a stage-agnostic venture capital firm with assets under management across multiple funds.
Advisor
2013
http://blog.box.com/2013/08/welcoming-steven-sinofsky-as-a-box-advisor/
Box is an online file sharing and cloud content management service offering unlimited storage, custom branding, and administrative controls.
Raised $1,458,950,000.00 from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.
Author
2020
Authored and published "Hardcore Software: Inside the Rise and Fall of the PC Revolution". Through this first-person account of my time at Microsoft, I aim to convey to you an insider’s story of growing influence and corporate obstacles, the evolution of technology that changed the world, and most of all the people that made it happen. Hardcore Software shares the ups and downs of building massive software projects used by billions of people around the world. The scale of the software increases as the narrator and participant grows, starting as an individual contributor on pioneering tools for building Windows applications then rising to leading Microsoft Office and then Microsoft Windows. Sinofsky shares his experiences creating and managing successful software as well as the lessons that come from failure. We learn the inside story of how Microsoft tackled the challenges of the rise of the internet, the creation of Windows 95 and Office 95, and the wildly successful pivot to building enterprise products as Sinofsky works for Chairman/CEO Bill Gates as technical assistant and then as a member and eventual leader of the Office team. Following this is a period of challenging management and morale through the development of Office 2007 and Windows Vista. Sinofsky then moves to managing the Windows team and sees the team through the creation of the successful and stabilizing Windows 7 product followed by the controversial and ultimately unsuccessful product aimed at competing with Apple, Windows 8. Through all of this, candor and insider are the words that best describe the colorful and detailed analysis of what went well and what could have gone better. Released weekly on Substack with hundreds of archive materials, photos, articles, and memos all from my experience at Microsoft 1989-2012. Later compiled and released as an eBook availablea on most major eBook platforms. Audio narration by the author is also available. hardcoresoftware.substack.com
Board Member
2014 - 2016
Board member representing Andreessen Horowitz investment in company. http://a16z.com/2014/10/08/producthunt/. Product Hunt was acquired by AngelList December 2016—https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-01/angellist-buys-product-hunt-a-marriage-of-two-beloved-silicon-valley-sites.
Sandboxes helps build website for a new product or startup.
Board Member
2013 - 2015
Board member representing Andreessen Horowitz investment in company. http://blog.pmarca.com/2013/08/28/bringing-the-shared-economy-to-the-enterprise-2/ Company was acquired by Avis Car Rental. http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/25/zipcar-buys-fleet-management-startup-local-motion/
Local Motion provides car sharing and mobility management technologies.
Raised $6,000,000.00 from Morado Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz and Safa Rashtchy.
Executive in Residence
2015 - 2015
In Fall 1998 helped to teach class full time on campus. In 2015, helped similarly as a Visiting Scholar. In between had many interactions in classrooms and outside with students.
President, Windows Division
2006 - 2012
Windows 8, Surface, Windows Services including Outlook.com, OneDrive, Identity, Photos.
Senior vice president, Windows and Windows Live product development
2006 - 2009
Windows 7, Windows Live services including Hotmail, Messenger, SkyDrive, Identity, Writer.
Senior vice president, Office product development
2003 - 2006
Office 2007, SharePoint, Project, Visio, OneNote
Senior vice president, Office product development
2004 - 2005
In residence in Beijing China with focus on local Microsoft-wide efforts.
Vice president, Office product development
1998 - 2003
Office 2000, Office XP, Office 2003, FrontPage, SharePoint, Project, Visio, OneNote.
Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.
Author
2009 - 2009
Learn from the concepts, capabilities, processes, and behaviors that aligned around one strategy with the hard-won, first-person wisdom found in One Strategy. Challenging traditional views of strategy and operational execution, this book-written by Microsoft executive Steven Sinofsky with Harvard Business School professor Marco Iansiti-describes how you can drive innovation by connecting the potential of strategic opportunities to the impact of operational execution. Lessons from the unique combination of real-world experience managing a large scale organization with academic research in strategy and innovation Reveals what it takes to align a complex organization around one strategy, manage its execution, and reach for "strategic integrity" Written by Microsoft executive Steven Sinofsky with Harvard Business School professor Marco Iansiti-a combined forty years of management and research experience A unique perspective on strategy development, alignment, and execution Drawn from Sinofsky's internal Microsoft blog where he communicated some of the management processes the team put to work while developing a 4,000 person, multi-year project-Microsoft Windows 7-One Strategy shares the hard-won insights you can use to successfully make the leap from strategy to execution.
Education
MS
1987 - 1989
BA, cum laude
1983 - 1987
Diploma
1979 - 1983