Jenni Ellis is the Executive Assistant to the CEO at CompScience, a San Francisco insurtech building AI control systems that aim to prevent one million workplace injuries by 2035. The right hand to founder Josh Butler, she runs the day-to-day machinery behind a fast-scaling, Series B startup. Before CompScience she logged operations and office-management time across some of the Bay Area's best-known tech names - Replicate, DoorDash, Instacart, and Dropbox - building a reputation as the steady operator who keeps founders and offices moving. Colleagues describe her as vivacious and enthusiastic, a natural leader who keeps tabs on the day-to-day flow of a business.
Keith Putnam-Delaney is the co-founder and CEO of Primer, a San Francisco B2B marketing intelligence platform that turns work-email lists into ad-platform audiences, enriches leads, and orchestrates campaigns across ad networks, social, and sales tools. A former high-school history teacher who became a growth marketer at Dropbox and Eden before founding Primer, he built the company from a consulting hunch into a venture-backed startup that raised a $12M Series A in 2022.
Dennis Woodside is the CEO and President of Freshworks, a Nasdaq-listed SaaS company serving 75,000 customers worldwide with AI-powered business software. A Cornell rower turned Stanford lawyer turned McKinsey consultant turned tech executive, he has spent two decades building and scaling iconic companies - leading Google's EMEA sales engine, running Motorola Mobility after its $12.5B acquisition by Google, scaling Dropbox from $250M to a $1B+ IPO, and betting on plant-based food at Impossible Foods before landing at Freshworks in 2022. Off the screen, he is a 15-time Ironman Triathlon finisher who qualified for the World Championship in Kona, Hawaii.
Christina Cacioppo is the co-founder and CEO of Vanta, the agentic trust management platform that has become the default infrastructure for security compliance among modern tech companies. After stints at Union Square Ventures and Dropbox Paper, she built Vanta from a spreadsheet prototype into a $4.15 billion company serving 12,000+ organizations across 58 countries, raising $504 million in total funding. She is one of America's self-made female billionaires, known for applying rigorous first-principles thinking to the usually-dull world of corporate security.
Jessica McKellar is the CEO of Pilot.com, the largest accounting firm for startups in the US, which she co-founded in 2017 alongside longtime collaborators Waseem Daher and Jeff Arnold. A MIT computer science alumna, she previously co-founded Zulip (acquired by Dropbox) and served as Director of Engineering at Dropbox. Beyond building companies, she has been a transformative force in the Python open source community, growing Boston's Python user group to the world's largest, and teaching Python inside San Quentin State Prison. Pilot reached unicorn status in 2021 with a $1.2B valuation and over $222M raised from Sequoia, Index Ventures, and Bezos Expeditions.
ChenLi Wang is a General Partner at WndrCo, the Redwood City venture firm that builds and backs early-stage technology companies. He was Dropbox's second business hire and built its growth, monetization, analytics and international teams before later running the core Dropbox app. At WndrCo he led investments in CompanyCam, Exa, Material Security, Meter, Socket, Defakto and Webflow, and has served operationally as Chief Product Officer at Aura and Pango.
Maximilian (Max) Ventilla is a General Partner at Offline Ventures, a venture studio and early-stage fund based in Mill Valley, California. A four-time serial entrepreneur and technology executive, he co-founded the social search engine Aardvark (acquired by Google for $50M in 2010), was a founding member of Google+, founded and led AltSchool (a personalized education technology company), and served as VP of New Frontiers at Dropbox before moving into venture investing. His career spans AI, product strategy, personalized learning, and venture building, with a deep conviction that technology can be made more human.
Jean-Denis Greze is the Co-Founder and CEO of Town, an AI-powered tax platform for small businesses that raised an $18M seed round led by First Round Capital in March 2025. Previously, he served as CTO of Plaid, where he scaled the engineering team from 20 to 350 people, and before that as Director of Engineering at Dropbox. A Columbia CS grad and Harvard Law JD, he brings an unusually cross-disciplinary approach to building technology companies at the intersection of finance, law, and software.
Abhishek Agrawal is the Co-Founder and CEO of Material Security, a San Francisco-based cybersecurity company that pioneered zero-trust protection for cloud email and collaboration environments. A Princeton-trained engineer who attended college at 16 and later earned his MBA from Harvard Business School as a Baker Scholar (top 5%), Agrawal co-founded Material Security in 2017 alongside former Dropbox colleagues Ryan Noon and Chris Park, inspired by the 2016 John Podesta email breach. Under his leadership, Material Security reached unicorn status ($1.1B valuation) after a $100M Series C in May 2022 led by Founders Fund, with backing from Andreessen Horowitz, Elad Gil, and Snowflake Ventures. The platform protects organizations like OpenAI, Anthropic, Reddit, Lyft, Roblox, and DoorDash against email-based threats and data loss in Google Workspace and Microsoft 365.
Ilya Fushman is a Partner at Kleiner Perkins, one of Silicon Valley's most storied venture firms, where he invests in early and growth-stage companies reshaping enterprise software, infrastructure, financial services, and AI. Before VC, he was a senior product leader at Dropbox (employee #75) and a General Partner at Index Ventures. A trained physicist with a Stanford PhD and a Nature paper on quantum computing, Fushman brings rare scientific depth to the investment table - having backed transformative companies including Slack, Robinhood, Rippling, Harvey, and Loom.
Pejman Nozad is the Founding Managing Partner of Pear VC, a $800M+ AUM seed-stage venture firm he co-founded in 2013. Born in Tehran, he arrived in Silicon Valley in 1992 with $700 and no English, worked as a car washer, lived in a yogurt shop attic, then became the top Persian rug salesman on University Avenue in Palo Alto — selling $8M in a single year to the Valley's most powerful VCs and founders. Those relationships became deal flow. He backed Dropbox, DoorDash ($1.9M seed → $440M), AppLovin, and Andy Rubin's pre-Android company Danger. Forbes ranked him #1 on its Midas Seed List three consecutive years (2023, 2024, 2025). He has no CS degree, no MBA, and never worked in tech — yet built one of the highest-performing seed funds ever and joined the board of Sheffield United FC in 2025.
John Lilly is a Venture Partner at Greylock Partners and former CEO of Mozilla Corporation, where he oversaw Firefox's growth from 7 million to 450+ million users. A Stanford-trained engineer turned VC, he has backed transformative companies including Dropbox, Figma, Instagram, and Discord, while staying rooted in civic technology as Board Chair of Code for America. He currently serves as a lecturer at Stanford GSB and Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School.
Bryan Schreier is a partner on Sequoia Capital's seed and early-stage team, where he's spent nearly two decades building category-defining companies from their earliest days. After launching Google's European headquarters and serving as interim President of Sales in China, he joined Sequoia in 2008 and became the first institutional investor in companies like Dropbox, Qualtrics, and Thumbtack. Known for hands-on board work and detailed founder playbooks, he specializes in marketplace and services infrastructure businesses that transform how work gets done, often partnering with bootstrapped or non-Bay Area founders to help them use data to find product-market fit and scale into category leaders.
Drew Houston is the co-founder and CEO of Dropbox, the cloud storage and productivity company he built from a bus-ride frustration in 2006 into a NASDAQ-listed business with over 700 million registered users and ~$2.5B in annual revenue. A MIT computer science graduate who started coding at age 5, Houston famously turned down a ~$250M acquisition offer from Steve Jobs in 2009 and has spent nearly two decades transforming Dropbox from a file-sync tool into an AI-powered universal workspace. In 2024, he and his wife Erin signed The Giving Pledge, committing the majority of their ~$2.4B fortune to education and entrepreneurship causes.
Sean Ellis coined the term 'growth hacking' in 2010, invented the 40% product/market fit test, and served as the first marketer at Dropbox and Eventbrite. Founder of GrowthHackers.com (1.8M members) and co-author of 'Hacking Growth' (750,000+ copies, 16 languages), he is arguably the single most influential figure in the modern growth discipline - the person who gave the industry its name, its frameworks, and its operating system.
Todd Jackson is a Partner at First Round Capital, one of Silicon Valley's most storied seed-stage venture funds, where he backs pre-seed and seed-stage founders building B2B SaaS, AI, and enterprise products. His path to the table was anything but conventional: he helped build Gmail from beta to 200M users at Google, rewired Facebook's News Feed under Zuckerberg, built and sold a 2M-user Android app (Cover) to Twitter, and led Dropbox through its 2018 IPO as its first VP of Product and Design. He created First Round's widely cited Product-Market Fit Method, a rigorous four-level framework that has guided 75+ early-stage founders. Rare among VCs, Jackson holds all three operator lenses - big-tech product leader, startup founder, and public-company exec - and deploys them in service of the founders he backs.
Wayne Chang is a Taiwanese-American serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and technologist who co-founded Crashlytics (acquired by Twitter for ~$260M, then sold to Google as Fabric), co-founded Digits (AI-powered fintech for SMBs), and is currently building Reasoner, a neurosymbolic AI company claiming to outperform OpenAI's o1 models. Named one of Forbes' Top 50 Angel Investors with 80+ investments and 31+ exits generating over $150 billion in combined value, Chang also holds the coveted @wayne Twitter handle, holds 20+ patents, won an Emmy for producing Chasing Coral, and helped launch Dropbox by recruiting co-founder Arash Ferdowsi.
Hiten Shah is a serial SaaS entrepreneur, angel investor, and startup advisor who co-founded KISSmetrics, Crazy Egg, Nira (acquired by Dropbox in 2024), and Product Habits. Over 20+ years, he has built and scaled multiple companies using a philosophy of radical customer obsession, clarity of communication, and deliberate execution. He advises 120+ startups, has invested in 25+ companies, and shares insights through his newsletter, The Startup Chat podcast, and a 272K+ following on X.