Location Los Altos, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Male
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Michael is a tech executive, entrepreneur, and angel investor. He's an advisor to Pinterest, has a fund, Endeavor Partners, through which he invests in and/or advises early stage companies including AngelList, LinkedIn (IPO 2011), BrightRoll (acquired by Yahoo), Wikia, Firebase (acquired by Google), Vector Space, ICON Aircraft, World View
Enterprises, Dryft (acquired by Apple), Dulance (acquired by Google), and others.
Michael cofounded AdForce, a pioneer in online advertising (IPO 1999), was EIR at Redpoint Ventures, and founded XDegrees a distributed storage solution (acquired by Microsoft). Michael also founded Wink/Search Engine Technologies (acquired 2008) and was previously product manager at Verity, the first leading search engine (IPO 1995). Michael was a founding board member of Full Circle Fund, and was board member at Cloudmark, Fundly, and GAIN Fitness.
Michael holds an MBA from Stanford University and a degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Alberta.
