Welcome to the team, Jesse Haines 🌟
Investing in founders reimagining global habits with new tech infrastructure. 30+yrs. in Silicon Valley as Engineer -> Product Mgr. -> Entrepreneur -> VC.
It helps to be lucky, repeatedly. This is especially true when one gets to collaborate with exceptional people more than once in the same lifetime. In venture capital, much like any team sport, “repeat business” is the ultimate sign of trust & respect. Even when Founders, VCs & LPs make money together, it’s not a given they will collaborate again because working together for years truly reveals character. Once may be accidental, twice is a conscious decision. Today, we got lucky again because one of my collaborators from Google whom I have admired for 2 decades & always wished to partner again is choosing to do just that. Welcome Jesse Haines to SHAKTI!! After nearly two decades of illustrious leadership at Google, Jesse is joining Elizabeth Harrow and I to help our customers (Founders & LPs) build category leading companies from concept through IPO. Going from zero to billion is a journey that Jesse has traveled many times across Google’s consumer & commercial businesses. Jesse is a unique leader who’s equally comfortable engaging with small teams across engineering & product on “Day 1” as well with large cross-functional teams scaling to thousands with senior stakeholders in business & government. And just as with everything in the VC business, Jesse’s career is a portfolio - spanning from entrepreneur to educator to management consultant and operator. I can’t wait for our community to meet Jesse and experience the joy of collaborating with her and benefit from her portfolio of experiences, just as I have. Thank you Jesse for the repeat business!!
Founder & CEO, Petroglyph Wealth Management
3moI'm late to see the news, but congrats on the move Jesse!