Steven Trieu
Partner at Social Capital
Palo Alto, California
Overview
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.
Education
B.B.A.
1997 - 2001