Screendoor

Helping the Screendoor team fund and support amazing emerging managers who are changing the face(s) of venture capital

Co-Founder

Homebrew (Seed Stage Venture Capital)

Providing early stage investment, assistance & love to entrepreneurs building companies

Investments include ShieldAI, Plaid, Gusto, Chime, Cruise, Bowery Farming and other FinTech, SaaS, API, marketplace, commerce businesses.

Learn more at www.homebrew.co & follow us on Twitter via @homebrew

Partner

Google

2012-13: Evolving YouTube as a platform for social causes, education & change.
2007-11: Lead the product team responsible for building YouTube into one of the world's largest websites. Working with great people to build amazing products for YouTube.com, our monetization, mobile, international and content identification strategies.
2006: Google's video platform/ad+content syndication
2003-06: AdSense

Director, Product Management

Linden Lab

Created Second Life, a Time Magazine Coolest Invention of 2002 and a leading virtual world with over 15m users.

Built (or helped build) product management, product marketing, marketing and communications, live community, business development. Wrote business plan, product overview, funding models. Launched and named product. Led website design. Did first co-marketing deals with Intel, Nvidia, Apple. Negotiated software licenses. Had lots of fun.

Director of Everything Non-Engineering (founding team)

Mattel

Summer between Y1 and Y2 of Stanford B-School. Always wanted to work in a toy company. Part of a small corporate strategy group with a project to help define Mattel's video game strategy. Three major accomplishments:

1. Created video game industry overview and recommended strategy, delivered to CEO and executive team

2. Performed due diligence and successful negotiations for purchase of a genealogy software company

3. Performaned due diligence and preliminary negotiations for acquisition of a Tier 1 video game publisher (public company)

Corporate Strategy and New Product Development

Deloitte Consulting

strategy and ops followed by helping to found our firm's Change Management practice which focuses on people and process. Now w/ hundreds of consultants and tens of millions of dollars in annual revenue.

Management Consultant

Back in the day we made a go of this crazy late night talk show which no one thought would succeed. One of the highlights of my life!

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Partner at Homebrew, seed stage VC fund. Providing early stage investment, assistance & love to entrepreneurs such as Chime, Plaid, Gusto, Bowery Farming, Finix, Noyo, Orum, ShieldAI, Cruise and other fintech, SaaS, machine learning, marketplace, commerce businesses.

Previously built products which earn > $1b in annual revenue and generate over a billion daily pageviews. Scale!

* Led product @ YouTube for 2007-2011, 40x traffic growth
* Managed teams of 40+ people
* Founding team member at Linden Lab (creators of Second Life) 
* Active angel investor and advisor
* East Coast guy growing West Coast roots
* One wife, one baby, one old house
* Stanford MBA, Vassar BA

Writing at https://medium.com/@hunterwalk

Specialties: product development, product management, product marketing, marketing communications, business development, entrepreneurship, sarcastic quipping, humility

Honored to be recognized as a finalist in the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Bay Area program. Grateful for this opportunity to share the story of Honor, our impact and our vision for the future...we’re just getting started! #EOYUS #EOYBAYAREA  

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