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Mark Woolway. Mark leads Craft’s non-investment functions, including operations, finance, legal, fundraising, and LP relations. Prior to Craft, Mark served as CFO of Zenefits, COO of Intercom, and EVP of Yammer. Previously, Mark ran Peter Thiel’s family office and served as Managing Director of Clarium Capital (now Thiel Capital).
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- Craft Ventures
Our CxO advisory council is made up of technology leaders and builders spanning CIOs, Data & Engineering, Innovation, and Partnerships. Whether Craft companies engage “bottom-up” or “top-down,” the members of this council represent the various touch points within an enterprise organization, helping guide portfolio leaders on product and ...
Craft Ventures's President is Mark Woolway. Other executives include Brian Murray, Partner & COO; Sky Dayton, Venture Partner and 11 others. See the full leadership team at Craft.
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- ‘Trial by Fire’
- Silicon Valley Misfits
- Learning The Right Lessons
In late 1998, Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, and Luke Nosek founded Confinity (formerly FieldLink, Inc.). Thiel and Levchin met at Stanford University after Thiel gave a guest lecture and the two began to work together on the concept of a digital wallet. The company initially focused on mobile payments sent from PalmPilots and other PDAs, but a Confinit...
“I remember sitting in the integration meeting with eBay,” Rabois said. “So, this is as we are figuring out how to align the teams and prioritize roadmaps. And the eBay team arrived with a 137-page PowerPoint. And, they proceeded to try to walk David Sacks, and me, and a couple of my colleagues through this PowerPoint slide by slide. “As soon as th...
The Silicon Valley misfits had cracked the code. They had built, iterated, and scaled a product to a $1.5 billion acquisition, but it wasn’t enough. “There’s always a degree to which a lot of very successful entrepreneurs both think they can do great things, but also have a sense that people don’t think they can and that they have to prove it. You ...
When it comes down to it, there were too many factors that went into PayPal’s success for any one piece to be pulled out and held accountable. “The motivation question is always important,” Thiel said. “I think [with] the great companies there’s always this mission part where there’s always a sense that if you didn’t do it, no one else would. If yo...
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Dec 7, 2016 · Woolway, acting chief financial officer of start-up Zenefits, who has known Thiel since their days at PayPal, will join the Treasury landing team.
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