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Matthew Goldberg

CEO at Tripadvisor

New York City Metropolitan Area

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $100,000.00

Work Experience

  • President & Chief Executive Officer

    2022

    The Tripadvisor Group (Nasdaq: TRIP) operates a portfolio of brands and businesses that connect people to experiences worth sharing, and aims to be the world's most trusted source for travel and experiences. We leverage our brands, technology, and capabilities to connect our global audience with partners through rich content, travel guidance, and two-sided marketplaces for experiences, accommodations, restaurants, and other travel categories. The subsidiaries of Tripadvisor Group include Tripadvisor, the world's largest travel guidance platform connecting hundreds of millions of travelers each month to more than 1 billion reviews and opinions of nearly 8 million businesses; Viator, the leading experiences marketplace with the world's largest supply of high quality online bookable inventory; TheFork, the leading restaurant booking platform in Europe; and Cruise Critic, the world's largest online cruise resource.

  • Board Member

    2014

    Burning Man is a network of people inspired by the values reflected in the Ten Principles and united in the pursuit of a more creative and connected existence in the world. Throughout the year we work to build Black Rock City, home of the largest annual Burning Man gathering, and nurture the distinctive culture emerging from that experience. The hub of this global network is the 501(c)(3) non-profit Burning Man Project, headquartered in San Francisco, California.

  • Board Member

    2015

    Lumina Foundation is an independent, private foundation committed to increasing the proportion of Americans with degrees, certificates and other high-quality credentials to 60 percent by 2025. Lumina’s outcomes-based approach focuses on helping to design and build an equitable, accessible, responsive and accountable higher education system while fostering a national sense of urgency for action to achieve Goal 2025. Based in Indianapolis, the Foundation employs roughly 55 staff members and has an endowment in excess of $1 billion. Lumina Foundation is the nation’s largest private foundation focused solely on increasing Americans’ success in higher education.

  • Founding Partner

    2021

    Anthropocene Ventures is a global, early-stage VC firm investing in founders that leverage exponential technologies & hard science to make humanity more resilient.

  • Founding Board Member

    2021

    Founding member of the board of directors at Blue Ocean Acquisition Corp, a special purpose acquisition company focused on digital media, marketplace and technology platform businesses

  • Chair Of The Board Of Directors

    2022

    Lingoda is an online language school helping the world speak new languages with confidence. Founded in Berlin, Germany in 2013, we provide convenient and accessible online language courses in German, English, Business English, Spanish and French to over 80,000 students worldwide. Our private and small group classes are taught by over 1,000 qualified, native-speaking teachers. With over 450,000 classes available per year and accessible 24/7, our mission is to empower even the busiest people to master a language and unlock their potential — at any time, from anywhere.

2016 - 2023

  • Advisor

    2021 - 2023

    Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Boulder, Colo., TeamSnap has taken the organization of youth, recreational and competitive sports into the 21st century. 22 million coaches, administrators, players and parents use TeamSnap’s web and smartphone apps to sign up, schedule, communicate and coordinate everything for the team, the club and the season. TeamSnap makes organizing sports as simple as click, tap and go.

  • Board Member / Special Advisor to the CEO

    2016 - 2021

2020 - 2022

  • Founding Director, Dataphilanthropy

    2021 - 2022

    Dataphilanthropy is dedicated to the mission that passionate, yet data-driven, rational philanthropy is the most effective way to deploy capital against humanity's toughest problems. We select projects where we can apply data to understand progress, challenges and opportunities. We look for innovative interventions that deliver measurable outcomes to remove obstacles to equal opportunity. We invest in communities, businesses and people by providing both capital and capability to deliver solutions at scale.

  • Executive Vice President, Global Operations

    2020 - 2021

    The Trade Desk is a global technology company that empowers buyers of advertising to create, manage, and optimize digital advertising campaigns across ad formats and devices. As Executive Vice President, Global Operations for The Trade Desk, I oversaw all aspects of The Trade Desk’s operations, including our rapid geographic expansion and client services, helping to maintain our global mission and culture as the data-driven advertising leader in key markets around the world, while adapting local market conditions to future growth.

  • Executive Vice President, North America

    2020 - 2020

    As Executive Vice President, North America for The Trade Desk, I led the team driving revenue generation and new client acquisition strategy to further the company’s rapid growth in its largest market, particularly in emerging, high growth areas such as connected TV and mobile.

  • Chairman Of The Board Of Directors

    2017 - 2019

    Elara Technologies is India’s fastest growing digital real estate platform with assets across primary brokerage (PropTiger.com), classified (Housing.com), marketplace (Makaan) and Rental (FastFox)

2016 - 2019

  • Global Head of M&A and Strategic Alliances / Head of India

    2016 - 2019

    News Corp is a global, diversified media and information services company focused on creating and distributing authoritative and engaging content and other products and services. The company comprises businesses across a range of media, including: news and information services, subscription video services in Australia, book publishing and digital real estate services. As Global Head of Mergers, Acquisitions, and Strategic Alliances for News Corp, I worked with key executives across the business to drive organic and inorganic growth as well as portfolio rationalization. I also led the online publishing, digital real estate and data businesses in India.