Mackenzie is the Global Startup Evangelist at AWS. His days are spent traveling the globe to meet startups, share their stories, and connect engineering teams together. Every day there are a large number of startups launching on AWS across every imaginable industry. It’s Mackenzie’s mission to find stories of startups that are helping to improve the world and share these stories with a wide audience.
Prior to joining AWS, Mackenzie was the Head of Technical Operations at Betterment, the world’s largest independent robo-advisor based in NYC which manages over $8B in assets. Mackenzie was a founding engineer and Head of Technical Operations at Oscar Health, an insurance startup also based in NYC, helping to grow the company to over 400+ employees and a $2.7B valuation. Before Oscar, Mackenzie was one the original engineers at Tumblr where he helped scale the infrastructure to 20B page views a month eventually selling to Yahoo! for $1.1B. He’s worked in a diversified set of industries including global media (MTV/Viacom), global Shipping (DHL), and more. He also holds numerous advisory roles at companies providing technical and business guidance around the world.
Mackenzie is the Global Startup Evangelist at AWS. His days are spent traveling the globe to meet startups, share their stories, and connect engineering teams together. Every day there are a large number of startups launching on AWS across every imaginable industry. It’s Mackenzie’s mission to find stories of startups that are helping to improve the world and share these stories with a wide audience.
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Shruti is founder and managing partner of Array Ventures. She is also a Professor at Columbia University to grad students in the CS department. Shruti brings a strong mix of operating and investing experience with exits to companies such as Paypal, WeWork, GoDaddy, Apple, and Samsung. Previously, Shruti was an investor at True Ventures and Samsung Next Fund.
Shruti started working with Machine Learning algorithms while working on her master's thesis in computer science from Columbia University on understanding user behavior on instant messaging platforms. While at IBM she worked on many things but her passion project was working on self learning algorithms that detected user location based on IP addresses.
When not investing, she's hacking on some app or thinking about ways she can be in many places at one time. Shruti also has an MBA from University of Chicago, where she polished her finance skills before making the switch from engineer/founder to investor.
Kyle is an entrepreneur and product guy. As a Partner at DCM, Kyle helps entrepreneurs scale their companies and focuses on consumer internet, SaaS, and financial technology. Kyle’s investments include Lime, Eaze, hims, DocSend, Shift, Grin Scooters (Grow), TravelBank, Mendel Health, Wrike (Acquired by Vista Equity Partners) and Tapingo (Acquired by Grubhub). Kyle also served as a board member for BitTorrent (Acquired by Tron) and SavingStar (Acquired by Quotient/Coupons.com), and is actively involved with SoFi, SigFig, and Matterport.
Prior to DCM, Kyle was the co-founder and CEO of ChoicePass, where he led product management, user acquisition, partnerships, sales and operations. ChoicePass was an enterprise perks and rewards SaaS company backed by prominent angel investors, and acquired by Salesforce.com and Rypple. At Salesforce, Kyle served as Director of Product Management on the founding product team for Work.com, growing the business to over 1,000 enterprise customers. Kyle holds a B.S. from UC Berkeley and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Ben is the Founder and General Partner of Bling Capital. He has backed 10 "unicorn" billion dollar companies, with the best yet to come.
Previously, Ben was a General Partner at Khosla Ventures, where he focused on consumer, Internet, mobile, marketplace, SaaS and consumer health businesses. There, he led investments in Wattpad, Tapingo, Gitlab, True Accord, Plastiq, among many others. Prior to that, Ben served in senior operating roles at Google, YouTube and Facebook. He also is an active angel investor with early stakes in Airtable, Lyft, Square, Palantir, Quora, Gusto, Udemy and others.
Russ is the co-founder and CEO of DocSend. He was previously a product manager at Facebook, where he arrived via the acquisition of his startup Pursuit.com, and has held roles at Dropbox, Microsoft, and Trulia. Russ holds an BS in Computer Science from Stanford and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
