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Alfred Lin

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Alfred is a venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital. He currently sits on the board of Achievers, Houzz, Humble Bundle, and Stella & Dot and works with consumer internet, enterprise and mobile companies.

Previously, Alfred was Chairman and COO/CFO at Zappos. He joined Zappos in 2005 and was responsible for all financial, administrative, and warehouse operations. Alfred focused on bringing focus, strategy and financial discipline in order to grow the business efficiently and profitably. Prior to joining Zappos, Alfred served as VP of Finance and Business Development at Tellme Networks, helping grow that business from no revenue to over $120M in recurring revenue per year, 30% cash margins and a $0.5B estimated contracted revenue backlog.

Prior to joining Tellme Networks, Alfred co-founded Venture Frogs with Tony Hsieh. Venture Frogs is an incubator and investment firm that invested in Internet startups, including Ask Jeeves, Tellme Networks, and of course, Zappos.com. Prior to Venture Frogs, Alfred served as VP of Finance and Administration at LinkExchange, where he managed the sale of the Company to Microsoft for $265M.

Alfred met Tony Hsieh (Zappos CEO) in college, when Tony was running a pizza business and Alfred was his #1 customer.

Recent Milestones

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  Alfred Lin invested in Uber. (2/14/11)
  Posted 2/14/11 at 5:55am via techcrunch.com
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  Alfred Lin invested in Crunched. (1/12/11)
  Posted 1/12/11 at 1:11am via dowjones.com
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  Alfred Lin invested in Uber. (10/15/10)
  Posted 10/15/10 at 1:53am via venturebeat.com
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  Alfred Lin invested in Appbistro. (8/13/10)
  Posted 8/13/10 at 6:13pm via techcrunch.com
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  Alfred Lin invested in Appstores.com. (8/1/10)
  Posted 6/4/11 at 10:50am via techcrunch.com
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  Alfred Lin invested in Schematic Labs. (8/1/10)
  Posted 3/11/11 at 10:16am via techcrunch.com
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  Alfred Lin invested in Jelli. (1/7/10)
  Posted 1/7/10 at 11:21pm via dowjones.com
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  Alfred Lin invested in Cardpool. (1/1/10)
  Posted 10/11/10 at 9:41pm
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  Alfred Lin added a position as Chairman & COO at Zappos.
  Posted 11/8/08 at 1:24am
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  Alfred Lin added a position as VP Finance & Business Development at Tellme.
  Posted 7/28/09 at 9:44am
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  Alfred Lin added a position as CFO at linkexchange.
  Posted 7/28/09 at 9:44am
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  Alfred Lin added a position as Partner at Sequoia Capital.
  Posted 1/27/11 at 9:19am
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  Alfred Lin added a position as Board Member at Humble Bundle.
  Posted 6/7/11 at 8:14am
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  Alfred Lin added a position as Board Member at Stella & Dot.
  Posted 6/12/12 at 10:18am
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  Alfred Lin added a position as Board Member at Achievers.
  Posted 8/31/12 at 10:08am
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  Alfred Lin added a position as Board Member at Houzz.
  Posted 8/31/12 at 10:08am

Investments

Videos

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1. Huge Vote Of Confidence: Uber Raises $11 million From Benchmark Capital (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. SalesCrunch Gathers $1.4M From First Round, Accel And Angels (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
3. UberCab raises $1.25M to end your futile search for taxis (venturebeat.com) [edit]
4. TC Disrupt Finalist Appbistro Raises $550K For Its Facebook App Marketplace (techcrunch.com) [edit]
5. TC Disrupt Finalist Appbistro Raises $550K For Its Facebook App Marketplace (techcrunch.com) [edit]
6. techcrunch.com [edit]
7. Jelli Nabs $2M Seed To Crowdsource Radio Stations (fis.dowjones.com) [edit]
8. Citation Needed [add]