
Before ClickUp could travel in a pocket, someone had to decide what the pocket could live without. O'Connor's public trail is a decade-long lesson in mobile engineering: make the sprawling useful, make the complicated feel obvious, then keep shipping.

The ClickUp co-founder learned inside IBM, built outside convention, and turned an internal fix into a global workplace platform. His latest project brings the lessons back to Notre Dame students, one weekly conversation at a time.
Arsham Memarzadeh is a General Partner at Meritech Capital in Palo Alto, where he leads enterprise software and infrastructure growth investments. He arrived in early 2025 after six years at Lightspeed Venture Partners, where he helped lead the growth practice and backed Wiz, Chainguard, Verkada, ClickUp, Axonius, Personio, Enable, Payhawk, and Spiff.