David Skok
Education
University of Sussex
BSc, Computer Science 1972-01-01 - 1976-01-01
Harrow School
, 1967-01-01 - 1971-01-01Work Experience
Matrix
Current
Matrix
HubSpot
2008-06-01 - 2018-07-01
HubSpot
SolidWorks Corp.
1994-01-01 - 2011-12-01
SolidWorks Corp.
JBoss
2003-01-01 - 2006-01-01
JBoss
AppIQ Inc.
2002-01-01 - 2005-01-01
AppIQ Inc.
SilverStream Software
1996-01-01 - 2001-04-01
SilverStream Software
Watermark Software
1992-12-01 - 1996-06-01
Watermark Software
Filenet
1995-01-01 - 1996-01-01
Filenet
Watermark
1993-01-01 - 1995-01-01
Watermark
Xionics
1990-07-01 - 1993-04-01
Xionics
Skills
Summary
David is a 5 time serial entrepreneur turned VC. David is best known for his blog, www.forEntrepreneurs.com, which covers topics such as the SaaS business model and Metrics, 9 steps to get to repeatable, scalable, and profitable growth, Time to Wow!, how to design and build a sales & marketing growth machine, etc. The blog has been rated #1 website for entrerpreneurs by Inc. magazine and #2 by Forbes. David founded a total of four companies, and did one turn-around. In 2001, he joined Matrix Partners, who had backed his last two startups, as a VC investor. Successful exits as a VC include: HubSpot, JBoss, AppIQ, Tabblo, Netezza, Diligent Technologies, CloudSwitch, TribeHR, GrabCAD, OpenSpan, Enservio and Conductor. David currently serves on the boards of Apollo GraphQL, CloudBees, Salsify, and SmartCAT. He holds a B.Sc Honors Degree in Computer Science from the University of Sussex, England. In addition to his broad focus on enterprise software, David has specific focus on the areas of SaaS, Infrastructure, Dev and DevOps, and Open Source software.
