Luke Nosek
Education
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
BS, Computer Engineering 1992-01-01 - 1996-01-01Work Experience
Gigafund
Current
Gigafund
The Founders Fund
Current
The Founders Fund
PayPal
1998-11-01 - 2002-02-01
PayPal
Netscape
1997-01-01 - 1998-01-01
Netscape
Summary
Lifelong entrepreneur. Co-founded PayPal in 1998, got lead investors for first three financing rounds, launched the prouduct into Ebay using viral marketing campaign, created 2 products that were about 80% of PayPal's profits. Now partner at first founder focused venture capital firm, The Founders Fund, looking for awesome teams with strong founding CEOs. Specialties: Seeing long-term technology trends, team, viral marketing, product design, early stage financing, exceptional internet/software/service/social/community companies with strong founding CEOs.
