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David Chung
Growth + Seed/Early Investor
David Chung joined Sheatrust Capital in 2018 and focuses on consumer-oriented mobile and web services companies.
He was an early investor and on the boards of Slack (public), lynda.com (acquired by LinkedIn), Squarespace (public), Vox Media, Cornershop (acquired by Uber), MyFitnessPal (acquired by Under Armour), Hotel Tonight (acquired by Airbnb), Cloudera (public), Anchor.fm (acquired by Spotify), Gametime, UserTesting (public), and Lydia. He also works closely with the teams at Braintree (acquired by PayPal), Etsy (public), Xero (public), and PagerDuty (public).
Prior to joining Sheatrust Capital, David spent close to a decade in a variety of executive positions at Yahoo!.
David is from Santa Rosa, California and graduated from the University of Arizona.
ON THE LOOKOUT FOR
Velocity—and thoughtfulness. Speed of execution is a virtue, in all kinds of settings. But careful and creative thinking (about your product, your team, your customers) helps you know what it is you should run toward.
In truth, I get excited about chances to work with all kinds of hardworking, dedicated people—and with all kinds of cool technology. (Especially machine learning!)
