Steven Trieu

Partner at Social Capital

Palo Alto, California

Overview 

Steven Trieu is a seasoned finance executive with experience at top tech companies like Facebook and Quora, currently serving as a Partner at Social Capital with expertise in business process re-engineering and financial analysis. He has successfully led business operations and financial strategies, playing key roles in mergers, acquisitions, and strategic partnerships throughout his career. Trieu has held significant positions such as Director of Finance at Facebook and VP of Finance at Quora, showcasing his expertise in financial analysis and business operations, and his current role as a Partner at Social Capital highlights his success in venture capital and strategic partnerships.

Work Experience 

  • Partner

    2024 - Current

  • Partner, Interim Global CFO

    2024 - 2024

We make big bets on transformational ideas, technology, and people.

  • Chief Financial Officer

    2024

  • Board Member

    2024

Groq radically simplifies compute to accelerate workloads in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and high-performance computing.

Raised $362,550,552.00 from SGH CAPITAL.

  • Partner, Chief Financial Officer

    2017 - 2021

    CFO of Social Capital overall including its 5 venture funds and its first 6 publicly traded SPACs

We make big bets on transformational ideas, technology, and people.

  • Board Member

    2019 - 2021

The Athos mission is to help athletes train more effectively and reach their performance goals faster.

Raised $50,700,000.00 from Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Felix Capital, Social Capital, True Ventures, DCM Ventures and MAS Holdings.

  • VP of Finance

    2011 - 2016

    Everything G&A related including finance, legal, facilities and IT Finance highlights include highly successful series-B and series-C financings, designed 10-year options exercise program in 2014 which was emulated by other companies, early exercise rights for all employees, liquidity window and IP transfer to Cayman entity. Facilities highlights include moving the company from downtown Palo Alto to downtown Mountain View, built 2 locations including a brand new building and securing space for the last 5 years and the next 10 years while saving millions by securing favorable subleases. IT highlights include in-housing IT program management, reconfiguring entire corporate network stack, VPN and wireless upgrades, VLAN segregation, phishing campaigns and single sign-on roll out. Legal highlights include worldwide trademark portfolio and enforcement, patent portfolio, product TOS enforcement and safe harbor compliance work.

Quora is a question-and-answer platform that allows users to ask and answer questions on a wide range of topics.

Raised $301,000,000.00 from Andreessen Horowitz.

  • Director of Finance and Business Operations

    2007 - 2011

    Joined Facebook in 2007 to build and head Business Operations and Sales Finance. Served as primary finance conduit to sales, marketing, product and engineering teams. Supported organic revenue grow of ~5,000% and the inception and build out of 3 sales channels totaling over 1,000 sales & marketing employees from 50.

Stay N' Alive Productions, LLC is a social media marketing firm that provides clients with measurable profits.

  • Sr. Mgr Business Operations

    2004 - 2007

Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services.

Raised $6,800,000.00 from Visa, SoftBank Capital, Sequoia Capital and Reuters Venture Capital.

  • Associate

    2004 - 2004

Ivy Asset Management is a company that offers financial services to its clientele businesses.

  • Analyst/Associate

    2001 - 2004

Bank of America Neighborhood Builders is a signature philanthropic program that advances economic mobility and nonprofit leadership.

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