John Lyman

John is a partner at GV, where he invests primarily in consumer marketplaces and enterprise SaaS companies. He is a board director or observer at StockX, Tend, Podium, Flock Freight, Gametime, Blavity and Core. He also worked extensively on GV's investment in Stripe and manages the firm's investment in Toast. Prior to joining GV John spent almost a decade at Google. He managed partnerships and marketing teams there, and oversaw the company's work with technology accelerators and incubators globally. He also created Google Demo Days, which spotlight and drive investment to high-growth startups from around the world, and was an early employee at Google.org, the company's philanthropic arm. John's career before Google focused on progressive public policy and advocacy. He helped launch and was one of the first employees at both the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), which convened world leaders to solve pressing global challenges, and the Center for American Progress (CAP), a think tank in Washington D.C. John graduated from Georgetown University with an A.B. in Government. He also has an M.P.P from the University of California, Berkeley. He is on the board of the TechEquity Collaborative, a non-profit focused on increasing the supply of housing in California, and the Oakland Fund for Public Innovation, which engages philanthropists to innovate and scale work that enhances Oakland.

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