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Josh Elman

Product Builder

San Francisco Bay Area

Skills

Product Management
Start-ups
User Experience
Mobile Devices
Venture Capital
SaaS
Gambling
Product Marketing
iOS
Product Innovation
Agile Methodologies
Big Data
Business Development
Business Strategy
Digital Marketing
E-commerce
Entrepreneurship
Facebook
Integration
Leadership

Work Experience

2020

  • Director of Product Management

    2023

  • Product Management

    2020 - 2023

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2009

  • Angel Investor / Product Advisor

    2009

    I advise and/or have invested in several different early stage startups companies that are focused on reinventing media, social, crypto, and apps. I also frequently meet with entrepreneurs informally to discuss product, growth, and social strategy.

2011 - 2020

  • Board Partner

    2018 - 2020

    I continue to support investments I have made with Greylock including serving on the boards of Medium, Discord, and Mammoth Media.

  • General Partner

    2013 - 2018

    I have focused on investing in entrepreneurs building new consumer products and services. In particular, I have focused on new social networks and platforms, mobile apps, new media, and marketplaces. I invested in Seed, Series A, and Series B. I led Greylock’s investments in and have served on the boards of Medium, Discord, Musical.ly (acquired by Bytedance, renamed to Tiktok), SmartThings (acquired by Samsung), Houseparty/Meerkat (acquired by Epic), Mammoth Media, and more.

  • Principal

    2011 - 2013

2017 - 2020

  • Board Member

    2017 - 2020

Discord

2016 - 2020

  • Board Member

    2016 - 2020

Medium

2014 - 2020

  • Board Member

    2014 - 2020

2018 - 2019

  • VP Product

    2018 - 2019

    Robinhood’s mission is to democratize access to financial markets. I oversaw marketing/growth, design, research, product management, and content (grew to ~50 people). In my time, we more than doubled customers and revenue.

  • Board Member

    2015 - 2019

    Houseparty / Life on Air was acquired by Epic Games in June 2019.

2013 - 2018

  • Investor / Board Observer

    2013 - 2018

2015 - 2017

  • Board Observer / Investor

    2015 - 2017

    Musical.ly was acquired by Bytedance (makers of Toutiao) in December 2017. Musically is now known as Tiktok.