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William Smith

Venture Partner at Next47

San Francisco, California

Overview

Work Experience

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Octave

  • Investor

    2016 - Current

    Investing in early-stage enterprise data companies. Notable investments include: Cascade, Datasaur, Datavant, Elliot Technologies, Facet, Forethought, Grafbase, Jasper, Metronome, Notion, SolveData, Tonic, Transcend, Transform, Weights and Biases, Workflowy

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Next47

  • Venture Partner

    2022

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The Future of Privacy Forum

  • Advisory Board Member

    2013

    Worked with Chuck Schumer to drive the self-regulation process of the Location Data space. Drafted the first Code of Conduct for the space.

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WeWork

  • Product

    2019 - 2020

    Led integration of Euclid product and team reporting to CTO. Acquired just before the IPO S1 filing. An action-packed moment where I led the acquisition and integration of Euclid, and experienced the hypergrowth and hypercontraction of WeWork.

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Euclid (acquired by WeWork)

  • CEO / Executive Chairman

    2010 - 2018

    Built the largest real-world behavioral dataset. (200m+ MAU) As a function of our scale had the opportunity to confront interesting problems in Machine Learning, Data Infrastructure, and Privacy. Backed by Benchmark Capital, NEA, Harrison Metal and others Acquried by WeWork

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