Greg McAdoo is a general partner at Bolt.io in

Silicon Valley Silicon Valley is a region in Northern California that serves as a global center for high technology and innovation. Located in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area, it corresponds roughly to the geographical areas San Mateo County ...

since 2017. Prior to joining Bolt.io, Greg spent 12 years as a senior partner at

Sequoia Capital Sequoia Capital is an American venture capital firm. The firm is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, and specializes in seed stage, early stage, and growth stage investments in private companies across technology sectors. , Sequoia's total a ...

. Greg specializes in internet services, mobile, energy and technology investments. Greg at some time was on the boards of

Airbnb Airbnb, Inc. ( ), based in San Francisco, California, operates an online marketplace focused on short-term homestays and experiences. The company acts as a broker and charges a commission from each booking. The company was founded in 2008 b ...

, Bump Technologies, Cue,

Clustrix Clustrix, Inc. is a San Francisco-based private company founded in 2006 that develops a database management system marketed as NewSQL. History Clustrix was founded in November 2006, and is sometimes called ''Sprout-Clustrix'' as it formed with t ...

Imageshack ImageShack is a subscription-based image hosting website headquartered at Los Gatos, California. Although ImageShack always had a subscription service, the majority of its revenue was originally produced from advertising related to its free ima ...

, MeLLmo and

Songkick Songkick is a concert discovery service owned by Warner Music Group. The service allows users to search for upcoming concert events in their area, and also track individual artists to receive notifications of upcoming shows in their area. It also p ...

. Greg also led Sequoia's investment in

Y Combinator Y Combinator (YC) is an American technology startup accelerator launched in March 2005. It has been used to launch more than 3,000 companies, including Airbnb, Coinbase, Cruise, DoorDash, Dropbox, Instacart, Quora, PagerDuty, Reddit, Str ...

and previously sat on the boards of

Isilon Systems Dell EMC Isilon is a scale out network-attached storage platform offered by Dell EMC for high-volume storage, backup and archiving of unstructured data. It provides a cluster-based storage array based on industry standard hardware, and is scalabl ...

Loopt Loopt was a company based in Mountain View, California, United States which provided a service for smartphone users to share their location selectively with other people (see location-based service). The service supported iPhone, BlackBerry T ...

RockYou RockYou was a company that developed widgets for MySpace and implemented applications for various social networks and Facebook. Since 2014, it has engaged primarily in the purchases of rights to classic video games; it incorporates in-game ads an ...

Achates Power Achates Power is an American developer of opposed-piston, two-stroke, compression ignition engines for use in commercial and passenger vehicles. Based in San Diego, California, the company was founded in 2004 by James U Lemke. According to Achat ...

and PowerFile. Prior to joining

in 2000, McAdoo was the president and CEO of

Sentient Networks Sentient Networks, Inc., was an American networking hardware company that manufactured of Asynchronous Transfer Mode, Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and Frame Relay concentrators and switches for Telephone exchange, central offices. Founded in 1 ...

(CSCO). Outside of entrepreneurial endeavors and investing, he was on the board of directors of the

National Air and Space Museum The National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, also called the Air and Space Museum, is a museum in Washington, D.C., in the United States. Established in 1946 as the National Air Museum, it opened its main building on the Nat ...

of the

Smithsonian Institution The Smithsonian Institution ( ), or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums and education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge". Founded ...

References

External links

Y Combinator Gets the Sequoia Capital Seal of Approval

Greg McAdoo at Startup School 2008
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