Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 5
CB Rank (Investor) 94,003
  • Investor Type  Investment Partner

Andy Johns is a Board Member at Heroic Hearts Project, Advisor at Keepsafe, and Advisor at fitmob. He was a General Partner at Unusual Ventures, leading and building its consumer portfolio. In particular, he’s interested in marketplaces, network-effect businesses, subscription services, and content platforms, but is curious about all technologies

in the space. Throughout the tech industry, he’s known as a growth and product leader, and has widely spoken about and been interviewed on the subject of how companies can authentically and strategically grow their user bases.

He joined Unusual from Wealthfront, where he started as Director of Growth and became President of the company. While there, he made key decisions about the product that have made it the category leader in fintech. Prior, he helped Facebook, Twitter and Quora gain millions of users and deliver culture-defining consumer internet products at scale. At Facebook, he worked on growth and user engagement tactics that took the company from 100 million to over 500 million users. He did the same at Twitter to take it from 40 million to 140 million active users. At Quora, he helped establish the growth team and helped get the product off the ground beginning with its first 10,000 users. In the process, he’s become the thought leader on how consumer startups can sustainably grow into large businesses.

Number of Partner Investments 2
Announced Date  
Organization Name  
Investor Name  
Lead Investor  
Funding Round  
Money Raised  
Mar 12, 2020
Ride Report
Unusual Ventures
Yes
Series A - Ride Report
$10M
Dec 5, 2019
Rive
Unusual Ventures
Yes
Seed Round - Rive
$4M
Number of Past Jobs 6
Andy Johns has had 6 past jobs including Product Manager of Growth at Quora.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Quora
Product Manager of GrowthDec 2011Apr 2013
X (formerly Twitter)
Product Manager of GrowthAug 2010Dec 1, 2011
Meta
Product Manager of Growth20082010
Greylock
Entrepreneur-in-ResidenceJul 2013
Wealthfront
President
Unusual Ventures
PartnerJan 2019
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 5
Andy Johns holds 5 board and advisor roles including Board Member at Heroic Hearts Project, Advisor at Keepsafe, and Advisor at fitmob.
Andy Johns studied at University of California, Los Angeles.