Invests in
Sectors:
Locations:
Min Investment:
$100,000.00Max Investment:
$10,000,000.00Target Investment:
$1,000,000.00
Skills
Education
- US
Lists including Lenny
Investments
Tracksuit
Total Funding: $19M
Artie
Total Funding: $51M
Bezi
Total Funding: $13M
Panobi
Total Funding: $5M
LlamaIndex
Total Funding: $9M
Minoa
Total Funding: $3M
Clazar
Total Funding: $14M
Stelo Labs
Total Funding: $6M
Zurp
Total Funding: $5M
Aviator
Total Funding:
Work Experience
2019
Author, Lenny’s Newsletter and Lenny’s Podcast
2019
2019
Angel Investor
2019
Investor in 150+ companies including Figma, Linear, Substack, Vanta, Anduril, Whatnot, Webflow, Descript, Levels, Mindbloom, Reforge, Zip, Stytch, Runway, Census, Pachama, and many more: https://www.lennyrachitsky.com/investing
2012 - 2019
Product Lead, Supply Growth
2016 - 2019
Led the team responsible for driving consumer supply growth. This included: * Performance marketing * Conversion * Referrals * Awareness and consideration * Re-engagement * Retention * Core host products Previously, led three teams driving Instant Book Growth (grew usage from 5% to over 80%), guest booking conversion, and building new tools for hosts (e.g. dashboards, calendar, guest controls, publishing, messaging). Also supported strategy of the Anti-Discrimination team, and helped on a few side-projects including work with The Malala Fund.
Product Lead, Guest Conversion and Host Quality
2012 - 2016
Drove growth through improvements to guest booking conversion, host experience (acceptance rate, response rate, more), and Instant Book. Drove host quality through launching programs such as Superhost, Mentors, Host Dashboard, host quality standards, revamp of reviews system, and more. Built Airbnb's first host community platform. Built the first attempt at extending Airbnb beyond the home (now Airbnb Experiences).
2010 - 2012
Co-Founder, CEO
2010 - 2012
Acquired by Airbnb in 2012. Localmind was an early location-based consumer app. We leveraged location data from Foursquare, Facebook, and Gowalla to capture location expertise of locals, enabling Localmind users to get real-time answers to questions about places they are thinking about visiting. https://angel.co/localmind http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-574061 https://techcrunch.com/2012/12/13/airbnb-acquires-localmind/
2004 - 2010
Engineer, Head of R&D
2009 - 2010
Focused on innovations in web performance, cloud, and web operations, looking 2-5 years down the road. Prototype, research, and build. Also included business development with partners.
Sr. Manager of Engineering
2004 - 2009
Managed the entire engineering department of Webmetrics. This included building the team, building the product, and maintaining a 24/7 operations culture. During this period we were acquired by Neustar, and the team grew 10x.
2001 - 2004
Lead Engineer
2001 - 2004
Built the core product offering for Webmetrics, a website monitoring and load testing product. Acquired by NeuStar
1998 - 1999
Web Developer
1998 - 1999
Basic web development for all the LA.com and sister properties (e.g. hawaii.com, texas.com, more)