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Mark Goldenson

Founder & startup investor

Mountain View, California

Work Experience

2021

  • Investor & Advisor

    2021

    Regrello is a no-code work platform for cross-company collaboration in supply chain workflows. Its investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Bloomberg Beta, Sherpalo, and Dell.

2023

  • Advisor

    2023

    Fluence is a leading continuing education organization in psychedelic therapy.

  • Founder

    2017

    VentureKit publishes free guides to help entrepreneurs get things done.

2019 - 2024

  • Group Product Manager

    2022 - 2024

    Leading Cloud AI's efforts in large language model (LLM) extensions (a.k.a. plugins), which enhance LLMs with real-time data and real-world actions to build AI agents. My team's scope includes function calling, coding models, and retrieval-augmented generation. When humanity creates Jarvis-like AI agents that help us run our personal and professional lives, extensions will be a major reason. :)

  • Senior Product Manager

    2021 - 2022

    Led an ads measurement suite of five products in Google Ads that generated $XB in annual revenue. - Managed a team of five PMs - Achieved 90% of 2022 OKRs - Co-managed $X00M operating budget - Promoted two reports and converted four reports to the PM ladder - Received 92% people management rating - Received four peer/spot bonuses

  • Founder in Residence

    2019 - 2021

    Joined Google Research's AI incubator part-time to research new AI-powered products to build. I eventually decided to build an AI-powered contract analyzer called Lincoln. The vision was to create a free contract analyzer that could classify any contract, extract and benchmark key values, assess risks, and organize a contract portfolio. It aimed to use Google's world-class AI expertise to offer free contract guidance to billions of people. Joined Google's startup incubator, Area 120, full-time in March 2020 to lead a team that built a proof of concept that could classify a few types of contracts and extract key clauses and entities. Our work contributed to the launch of Cloud's Contract DocAI product: https://cloud.google.com/solutions/contract-doc-ai.

2018 - 2022

  • Advisor

    2018 - 2022

    HistoWiz (YC W16) is the largest cloud histology service. A researcher can send HistoWiz any tissue sample to be stained, sliced, scanned, stored, and delivered as a digital slide within three days. They take the grunt work out of histology to help researchers focus on the intellectual work that saves lives.

2019 - 2021

  • Advisor

    2019 - 2021

    Motivo is the largest platform for therapist telesupervision. It connects pre-licensed therapists with clinical supervisors through secure video conference. They help aspiring therapists get the supervision required to earn their license, grow their skills, and launch their career. Learn more in this two-minute video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7b3fWWMYpk.

2018 - 2019

  • Network Leader

    2018 - 2019

    Village Global is a $100M seed-stage fund backed by exceptional founders, including Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Diane Greene, Reid Hoffman, and Mike Bloomberg. I advised and could make investments through the fund.

2017 - 2017

  • Entrepreneur in Residence

    2017 - 2017

    I mentored 500 Startups companies and talked with over 100 founders to learn what help they want from an investor beyond funding. My blog for founders, VentureKit, is built on this research.

2014 - 2017

  • Startup Research

    2014 - 2017

    Deeply researched several startup ideas to potentially launch. Interviewed over 100 industry professionals and potential customers. Ideas included: - A platform for fractional home ownership. Created an executive summary and a detailed financial analysis indicating that buying and living in a home as a group could be cheaper than renting in many areas. - A live, online food network (Twitch for food). Created an executive summary and financial projections of usage, costs, revenue, and headcount. - A marketplace to hire expert interviewers. Created an executive summary and financial projections. Though each of these ideas has potential, I decided that they had significant enough risks to not pursue for now.

2009 - 2014

  • Founder & CEO

    2009 - 2014

    Breakthrough was the largest online therapy service, acquired by MDLIVE. We offered live, video-based care with over 1,000 mental health providers and insurance coverage from over 30 insurers, including Blue Shield, Aetna, and Magellan, which covered over 10M people. I built the team to over twenty employees and raised $6M in funding from leading investors. Our seed investors earned a 16x return.