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Math of Growth vs Retention
Talks about Startup, Technology and Product Management
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Zeya Yang
Partner at IVP
San Francisco, California
Overview
Zeya Yang is a Partner at IVP, a venture capital firm in San Francisco, California, with a background as a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz and experience at companies like Plaid and Dropbox. Notable achievements include investments in companies like Pylon at Series A stage, showcasing a strong track record in identifying and supporting successful startups.
Work Experience
Partner
2024 - Current
IVP helps breakout companies grow into enduring market leaders. With a 40-year record of driving growth and 130+ IPOs, we’ve partnered with over 400 companies including Amplitude, Coinbase, Crowdstrike, Datadog, Discord, HashiCorp, Slack, Snap, and Twitter.
IVP is a later-stage venture capital firm investing in fast-growing technology companies.
Partner
2020 - 2024
Investments (chronological): Sprig, Stacker, Matik, Kindred, Graphite, Limitless, Relay, Macro, Tennr, Pylon, unannounced stuff Boards (alphabetical): AnyRoad, Descript, Graphite, Macro, Matik, Pylon, Stacker, Tennr
Andreessen Horowitz is a stage-agnostic venture capital firm with assets under management across multiple funds.
Product
2019 - 2020
Led product for Link (core product), Mobile, and Conversion teams
Plaid provides companies with the tools and access needed for the development of a digitally-enabled financial system.
Raised $734,300,000.00 from Bedrock, American Express Ventures, J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Silver Lake, Kleiner Perkins, Thrive Capital, Raed Malek, Index Ventures and Spark Capital.
Investor
2018 - 2018
Supported Series A in B2B SaaS company and Series D in vertical SaaS company
Index Ventures is a venture capital firm that helps the entrepreneurs turn bold ideas into global businesses.
Product Manager
2014 - 2017
• Founding PM of Subscription Growth team; shipped projects that increased ARR by $70M+ • Started on Strategic Finance; led variety of product strategy, corporate strategy, and corporate finance projects Achievements • Headshot was used in IPO roadshow presentation, quarterly investor presentations, and iOS app screenshots in Apple App Store • 3rd, Leadership Offsite Scavenger Hunt 2017 • 3rd, Revenue Olympics 2016 • 2nd, Hackolade (Hack Week 2016) • Closer Award, Monetization Pillar Offsite 2016 • Finalist, #WeNotI Award (Hack Week 2015) • 1st, Amazebox Race 2015 • 1st, Bubble Soccer Tournament 2015
Dropbox is a smart workspace company that provides secure file sharing, collaboration, and storage solutions.
Raised $1,709,215,000.00 from JP Morgan Chase, RBC Capital, Deutsche Bank, Macquarie Group, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America and JPMorgan Partners.
Associate Consultant
2013 - 2014
• Diligenced private equity, venture capital, hedge fund, and corporate M&A investments • New product strategy for Internet Infrastructure company