It was a kernel of an idea when he started, but today, it’s grown to become over a quarter of the overall Lyft business. Prior to joining the firm, David was Chief Business Officer of Lyft where he built the strategy and division responsible for winning enterprise customers, strategic partners and city partnerships. His career spans enterprise and consumer businesses at all stages, from ideation to billion dollar run rates all the way through to IPO. Īdding new team members is about so much more than a resume - as we’ve spent time with each of our new hires, we’ve learned about their values and have come to know that they are a perfect fit for the culture of our firm.īelow is some background on David, Mercedes, James, Anoushka and Rytis, and what they will focus on at Lightspeed…Īs the firm’s first COO hire, David brings years of operational experience in high-growth companies to Lightspeed. Today, we’ve added five more exceptional team members to the Lightspeed family: David Baga, Mercedes Bent, James Ephrati, Anoushka Vaswani, and Rytis Vitkauskas. In order to better serve entrepreneurs, we’ve welcomed new members and diverse thinkers to our consumer, enterprise and growth investing teams, as well as our operations team. As we grow the scope of our investments across geography, sector and stage, we need to also grow our team. When we’re not investing, we’re obsessing over hiring.Īt Lightspeed, we know our ability to help founders build enduring businesses is directly related to the strength of our team.
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