Primary Job Title Partner Primary Organization Sapphire Ventures
Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
Investor Type Investment Partner, Individual/Angel Investor Stage Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Venture Number of Exits
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Paul joined Sapphire Ventures in 2018 to broaden Sapphire’s consumer technology practice and lead new investments in the consumer, marketplace, fintech, and proptech spaces. He brings 20 years of experience as an operator and leader of high-growth consumer tech organizations including Trulia, Zillow Group, Yahoo!, and E*TRADE.
Prior to joining
Sapphire, Paul was president and COO of Trulia, where he helped lead Trulia’s transformation from a private 100-person company with $20 million in revenue, to a successful standalone public company (NYSE: TRLA) and to its eventual merger with Zillow Group (NASDAQ: ZG) to create a company with more than 3,000 employees, $1 billion in revenue and $10 billion in market capitalization.
Before Trulia and Zillow Group, Paul held leadership roles in product, marketing and general management at Yahoo!, E*TRADE, CurrentTV and AdBrite. He has been an investor and/or advisor to over 25 tech startups, ranging from early-stage startups to growth-stage companies.
Paul served on the board of directors of TubeMogul (NASDAQ: TUBE, acquired by Adobe) and Zvents (acquired by eBay). He holds a bachelor’s in economics and English from Amherst College, and an MBA from Stanford University.