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Sarah Tavel

General Partner at Benchmark

San Francisco, California

Work Experience

2017

  • General Partner

    2017

    Board member for Chainalysis, Hipcamp, Medely, Rekki, Glide, Cambly, and a couple other unannounced companies.

2015 - 2017

  • General Partner

    2015 - 2017

    While at Greylock, I led Greylock's investments in Sonder (Series B, IPO $SOND) and Gixo (Seed, acq. by Beachbody), and represented Greylock on the board of both companies.

2012 - 2015

  • Product Manager

    2012 - 2015

    Joined as a "utility player" before we had product managers, and became the first PM at Pinterest. Founding PM for our search and discovery, pin quality, and visual search (our computer vision team) teams. In this role, shipped dozens of search features and quality improvements, the first recommendations on Pinterest (related pins, picked for you), trending searches, verified accounts, link quality score, user blocking, user reporting, private boards, etc. I also led three acquisitions, launched us internationally, and was responsible for closing our $100m Series C financing.

  • Vice President

    2006 - 2012

    Convertro (acq), CPower (acq), Cornerstone OnDemand (IPO), Diapers.com/Quidsi (acq), KupiVIP, Metalogix (acq), MindBody (IPO), Onestop Internet, Pinterest (IPO), and Yodle (acq).

2005 - 2006

  • Consultant

    2005 - 2006

    Strategy consultant in start up firm specializing in life sciences.

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