Venturing Into the World of Google Ventures

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The chapter follows the speaker's journey from working at Google to transitioning into the venture capital world within Google Ventures. It discusses dispelling myths about venture capitalists, the importance of understanding the backgrounds of VCs for founders, and the significance of considering promotion, distribution, and user feedback in software startup development. The chapter also explores Google Ventures' multi-stage approach, technical due diligence, and the benefits of choosing specific technology stacks for startups.

GV, or Google Ventures, is an independent venture capital firm backed by Alphabet.

Erik Nordlander is a General Partner at GV and invests across enterprise software and frontier technology, focusing on developer tools, cloud infrastructure and machine learning. He has backed companies like Cockroach, Warp and Neo4j. Prior to joining GV in 2010 and opening up the firm’s New York City office, Erik was at Google and led development of the company’s next-gen display and serving system, and built statistical and machine learning models for Google’s ad businesses.

Erik joins the podcast to talk about his work.

Gregor Vand is a security-focused technologist, and is the founder and CTO of Mailpass. Previously, Gregor was a CTO across cybersecurity, cyber insurance and general software engineering companies. He has been based in Asia Pacific for almost a decade and can be found via his profile at vand.hk.