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Lightspeed is growing our Consumer Investing team

Lightspeed Venture Partners

He’s the cofounder and former CTO of LivingSocial, and over the past few years has angel invested in companies such as Shyp, LendingHome, Walker & Co, and also sits on the board of a YC alumni ThinAir. His full time job is CEO of Cheddar , the OTT video company he founded, and where Lightspeed is the lead investor.

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LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

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Even though we glossed over those slides, investors knew they could come back to those slides later and dig into them if necessary. By this point in the presentation, our goal was to lead investors to believe: A network-empowered people search application could be really valuable. Jean-Luc showed deep technology capabilities.