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Randy Haykin (born in
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) is a serial
entrepreneur Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyond what is normally encountered in starting a business, which may include other values th ...
,
angel investor An angel investor (also known as a business angel, informal investor, angel funder, private investor, or seed investor) is an individual who provides capital for a business or businesses start-up, usually in exchange for convertible debt or owners ...
,
venture capitalist Venture capital (often abbreviated as VC) is a form of private equity financing that is provided by venture capital firms or funds to startups, early-stage, and emerging companies that have been deemed to have high growth potential or which hav ...
and philanthropist who lives in the
San Francisco Bay Area The San Francisco Bay Area, often referred to as simply the Bay Area, is a populous region surrounding the San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun Bay estuaries in Northern California. The Bay Area is defined by the Association of Bay Area Go ...
. Haykin founded and runs The Gratitude Network (www.gratitude-network.org), a 501c3 not-for-profit that provides coaching services to social entrepreneurs around the world. Founded in 2012, The Gratitude Network is a global accelerator for social impact. Gratitude has worked with nearly 150 social entrepreneurs (both for-profit and not-for-profit) around the world (60+ countries) in a "scale-up" mode—they want to accelerate their growth and reach sustainability. Gratitude's programs include coaching, expert advising, an annual event (The Leadership Summit), and ongoing webinars on leadership. In 2021, Haykin was the national recipient of a silver Jefferson Award as a recognized community leade
"Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Teaches Others to Give With Gratitude"
In 1997, Haykin is a co-founded Outlook Ventures, which invested in over 30 growth-stage internet and software companies technology companies over a ten-year span. Haykin's "street training" came from executive roles at IBM, Apple, Paramount. Starting in 1993, Haykin joined a series of technology start-ups and held senior sales and marketing positions at Yahoo, Electric Minds and NetChannel. Haykin has been an angel investor for more than 20 years, investing in more than 40 early stage companies, including early stakes in AOL, Yahoo, Voquette, eTeamz/Active, Sharie's Berries, Napo Pharmaceuticals, Solazyme, BiOar, EyeFluence, Table.co, FastPencil, LesConcierges, EnerAllies, CrowdOptic, Apploi, QASymphony, ePharmix, Sculptology, and ProQure. Haykin and his wife are vintners/owners of Entrepreneur Wine
www.entrepreneurwines.com
a wine brand producing chardonnays, pinot noirs and cabernets from exclusive Napa/Sonoma vineyards. Haykin is a faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley
Haas School of Business The Walter A. Haas School of Business, also known as Berkeley Haas, is the business school of the University of California, Berkeley, a public research university in Berkeley, California. It was the first business school at a public university i ...
and visiting faculty of the University of Cambridge
Judge Business School Cambridge Judge Business School is the business school of the University of Cambridge. The School is a provider of management education. It is named after Sir Paul Judge, a founding benefactor of the school. The School is considered to be pa ...
. Haykin was Editor and writer of Demystifying Multimedia, published by Random House in 1992, and he co-wrote the book Fuel: Catholic Men, Loving the Faith; A Small Group Guide, which was released by Ave Maria Press in 2008.


Education

He graduated in 1985 from
Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...
, where he received a
Bachelor of Arts Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four years ...
degree in organizational behavior and management, and in 1988 from
Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers a large full-time MBA p ...
, where he obtained his
Masters in Business Administration A Master of Business Administration (MBA; also Master's in Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration such as accounti ...
.


Career

Haykin was the founding vice president of marketing and sales at
Yahoo! Yahoo! (, styled yahoo''!'' in its logo) is an American web services provider. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and operated by the namesake company Yahoo Inc., which is 90% owned by investment funds managed by Apollo Global Man ...
, where he was responsible for building the company's marketing team, establishing agency relationships and generating initial business model and advertising sales for Yahoo. Haykin was also vice president of marketing at NetChannel, which was acquired by
America Online AOL (stylized as Aol., formerly a company known as AOL Inc. and originally known as America Online) is an American web portal and online service provider based in New York City. It is a brand marketed by the current incarnation of Yahoo! Inc. ...
in 1998. He also served as part of the core team that launched America Online's Greenhouse, a venture incubator. In his five years at
Apple Computer Apple Inc. is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, United States. Apple is the largest technology company by revenue (totaling in 2021) and, as of June 2022, is the world's biggest company b ...
, Haykin was responsible for creating and launching the Apple Multimedia Program for developers as well as a line of retail multimedia and CD-ROM products. He was also responsible for the division's strategic relations, including the creation of the "New Media Center" program for higher education, with 10 other manufacturers and publishers. As the director of operations and business development at Viacom/Paramount's West Coast operations (the "Media Kitchen"), Haykin was in charge of online services and interactive team-building, corporate strategy and marketing. He is founder of The Gratitude Network and The Intersection Event, a day-long event on innovation and its effect on the social issues. In 1995, he formed Interactive Minds, which was renamed Outlook Ventures, a software venture capital company. In 1996, he cofounded Electric Minds, a social space on the Web for current topics. The ''
Harvard Business Review ''Harvard Business Review'' (''HBR'') is a general management magazine published by Harvard Business Publishing, a wholly owned subsidiary of Harvard University. ''HBR'' is published six times a year and is headquartered in Brighton, Massach ...
'' covered Haykin's career in a December 8, 1997 magazine article titled "Randy Haykin: The Making of an Entrepreneur." Haykin is an advisor and board member at Reply Inc.,
Digital Chocolate Digital Chocolate, Inc. was a video game developer and publisher headquartered in San Mateo, California. It was founded in 2003 by Trip Hawkins, the founder of video game companies Electronic Arts and The 3DO Company. The company focused on devel ...
, Embee Corp, LesConcierges, and CrowdOptic, Inc."Randy Haykin Executive Profile"
Retrieved on 18 October 2011.


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Intersection EventUniversity of California, Berkeley faculty bioAve Maria Press book listing
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