Venture with Grace Josh Stein, Threshold Managing Partner: Box to Twilio - Building Tech Giants
Josh Stein is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Threshold. He currently holds board responsibilities at ChangeEngine, Databook, Inscribe, LaunchDarkly, LendKey, Sanity, and Talkdesk. He is also actively involved with the firm's investments in AngelList, CloudZero, Doximity (NYSE: DOCS), Front, Imbue, and Rippling. His previous investments include Box (NYSE: BOX), Chartbeat (Cuadrilla Capital), Eventful (CBS Local), GoodGuide (UL), iList (IGN/News Corp), Periscope Data (Sisense), Polaris Wireless (strategic recapitalization), Redfin (NASDAQ: RDFN), Selligy (Veeva Systems), SugarCRM (Accel/KKR), Swell (Apple), Tremor Video (NYSE: TRMR), Twilio (NYSE: TWLO), Yammer (Microsoft), and Yardbarker (Fox Sports Interactive). Josh was a VP at Telephia, where he managed a group providing strategic analysis and information to the nation's largest wireless carrier. Previously, Josh was a co-founder, director, and the chief strategy officer for ViaFone (NYSE: SY), a leading provider of wireless enterprise applications. Josh has also held positions in product management at Microsoft and NetObjects, and was a management consultant in the San Francisco office of The Boston Consulting Group. Josh holds a BA from Dartmouth College, an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, and a graduate of the Kauffman Fellows Program. He currently serves on the board of trustees of the Crystal Springs Uplands School. Previously, he served on the board of directors of the Stanford GSB Trust, the Center for Venture Education, and the Kauffman Fellows Program, the leading educational fellowship in venture capital. Josh was named by Forbes to its annual Midas List of top technology investors for three consecutive years and was twice recognized as a “top VC investor” by New York Times / CB Insights in their annual rankings. He was also a recipient of the Deloitte Fast 500 Venture Capitalist of the Year award. Topics:
- Evolution of Enterprise Software
- Boardroom Dynamics and Social Psychology
- The Art of the Pivot