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July 24, 2013 09:00 pm GMT
A key secret to Silicon Valley’s success is its professional class of employees who help build hit startup after hit startup in its formative stages. This know-how in engineering, product design, growth, business development, sales and a range of other roles allow the founders of a hot company to hire fast and quickly mature their new ideas into big, real businesses. Josh Elman is one of the best examples I can think of, as he’s been leading a broad range of product efforts across Valley leaders for the last 15 years. Now he’s becoming a full partner at Greylock, moving up from his job for the past year or so as a principal there. What has he done? Lots of things you’ve probably heard of. At Real Player back in the 90s he helped create the RealJukebox and the canonical RealOne multimedia player. Then at professional network LinkedIn, as employee 15, he worked on early growth and virality, as well as the first version of its Jobs feature. From there he moved over to online retailer Zazzle, where he led product and grew its marketplace. His most recent stints are at the top social sites of our day, Facebook and Twitter, during their formative years. For the former, he helped lead platform and launched the first versions of Facebook Connect, that feature where you log in to other sites using your Facebook ID and then connect with your Facebook friends on those sites. It’s one of the most successful parts of the platform to date. From there he moved over to Twitter in the Ev Williams era, helping to grow the site to more than 10 times the size when he joined. Having covered him since his Facebook days, I’ve known Elman to be a very energetic, savvy and scrappy force for the companies he works with. After joining Twitter, for example, he was involved with Twitter’s move to show you other Twitter users on Facebook. It would have been a great way to get more Facebook users on Twitter in the brutally competitive era of 2010, which may have had something to do with Facebook immediately disabling the feature. He left Twitter as part of a product shakeup when Jack Dorsey assumed the CEO role from Williams, landing at Greylock and immediately getting on the investor grind — I seem to see him at most tech events I still
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Josh Elman, A Product Manager's Product Manager, Becomes Greylock's Newest Partner
A key secret to Silicon Valley’s success is its professional class of employees who help build hit startup after hit startup in its formative stages. This know-how in engineering, product design, growth, business development, sales and a range of other roles allow the founders of a hot company to hire fast and quickly mature their new ideas into big, real businesses. Josh Elman is one of the best examples I can think of, as he’s been leading a broad range of product efforts across Valley leaders for the last 15 years. Now he’s becoming a full partner at Greylock, moving up from his job for the past year or so as a principal there. What has he done? Lots of things you’ve probably heard of. At Real Player back in the 90s he helped create the RealJukebox and the canonical RealOne multimedia player. Then at professional network LinkedIn, as employee 15, he worked on early growth and virality, as well as the first version of its Jobs feature. From there he moved over to online retailer Zazzle, where he led product and grew its marketplace. His most recent stints are at the top social sites of our day, Facebook and Twitter, during their formative years. For the former, he helped lead platform and launched the first versions of Facebook Connect, that feature where you log in to other sites using your Facebook ID and then connect with your Facebook friends on those sites. It’s one of the most successful parts of the platform to date. From there he moved over to Twitter in the Ev Williams era, helping to grow the site to more than 10 times the size when he joined. Having covered him since his Facebook days, I’ve known Elman to be a very energetic, savvy and scrappy force for the companies he works with. After joining Twitter, for example, he was involved with Twitter’s move to show you other Twitter users on Facebook. It would have been a great way to get more Facebook users on Twitter in the brutally competitive era of 2010, which may have had something to do with Facebook immediately disabling the feature. He left Twitter as part of a product shakeup when Jack Dorsey assumed the CEO role from Williams, landing at Greylock and immediately getting on the investor grind — I seem to see him at most tech events I stillOriginal Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/axyIVGtmi04/
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