Match Group

Board of Directors at Match Group (MTCH), owner of Tinder, Hinge, Match, OK Cupid, and other dating apps.

Board Member

Harvard University

I am co-teaching ES-94: Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Harvard College.

Professor

heyLibby.ai

Co-Founder

Varo Bank

Varo is working hard to build a future that's more diverse and financially inclusive. As a new kind of bank, Varo is entirely digital, mission-driven, FDIC insured, and designed for the way customers live their lives. Varo is working with a team that uniquely and strategically combines banking veterans with technology experts. The banking experts provide decades of industry experience, and the tech experts can build a mobile app that offers everyone access to premium banking, including quicker access to your money, high-yield savings, and automatic saving tools.

Pacaso

Co-Founder, Chair of Board of Directors 

Queue

Queue is a new social way to save, share, and discuss what you want to watch and what you’re binging. On Queue, you can look up any movie or show, see where it’s streaming, and start binging. You can also keep track of everything you’ve watched and everything your friends recommend.

The app, co-founded by Spencer Rascoff and Garrett Rothstein, provides real recommendations from real friends. Follow your closest friends and see what they’re watching, unlock fun badges, check out the Top 10 trending titles on your favorite services, and use the social sharing features to tell your friends about what you’re adding to your Queue.

Co-Founder and Chairperson

Recon Food

Recon Food is a vertical social media app that will bring people together through a shared love of food. The app, which is co-founded by Spencer Rascoff, co-founder of Zillow and Hotwire, and his 16-year-old daughter, Sophia Rascoff, was developed in response to the need for a healthy space to connect with others away from the noise, toxicity and politics that often bombard mainstream social media apps.

Recon Food is social media, but specific to food. Users can either take photos of their restaurant dishes and review them, or take photos of the dishes they make in their own kitchen for others to see. Users are able to take photos on-demand or let the innovative technology search their camera roll and upload any food-centric photos ever taken. The app then uses geolocation to identify the restaurants where you took the photos and allows you to recommend the dishes. Recon Food users can decide if they want to share their photos and reviews with their connections or with the larger community.

75 & Sunny

75 & Sunny works with and mentors founders of companies in 75 & Sunny Ventures’ portfolio and takes an active role in launching new start-ups through 75 & Sunny Labs.

Co-Founder and General Partner

dot.LA

dotLA is a media and events company which shines a light on the innovation in the Los Angeles tech community. 
I founded dotLA in 2019 and was Chair until 2024 when the company sold.

Co-Founder, Executive Chairman

Palantir Technologies

Spencer is Co-Founder and General Partner at 75 & Sunny. Spencer is an entrepreneur and company leader who co-founded Zillow, Hotwire, dot.LA, Pacaso, Recon Food, Queue, and heyLibby and House Whisper, who served as Zillow's CEO for a decade. During Spencer’s time as CEO, Zillow won dozens of “best places to work” awards as it grew to over 4,500 employees, $3 billion in revenue, and $10 billion in market capitalization. Prior to Zillow, Spencer co-founded and was VP of Corporate Development of Hotwire, which was sold to Expedia for $685 million in 2003.

Excited to join the Board of Directors of Match Group (parent company of Tinder, Hinge, Match, OK Cupid and many other dating apps). 

Similar to Zillow Group, Match Group is a multi-brand, mobile-first, category-leading, two-sided marketplace in an important category -- relationships. 

Looking forward to working with Bernard Kim, Thomas J. McInerney, the talented team at Match Group, the rest of the Board of Directors, and my new fellow director Laura Jones.

Spencer Rascoff

Spencer Rascoff is an entrepreneur and company leader who co-founded Zillow, Hotwire, dot.LA, Pacaso, Recon Food, Queue, Path, heyLibby and Supernova's family of SPACs, and 75 & Sunny. Spencer served as Zillow's CEO for a decade. During Spencer’s time as CEO, Zillow won dozens of “best places to work” awards as it grew to over 4,500 employees, $3 billion in revenue, and $15 billion in market capitalization. Prior to Zillow, Spencer co-founded and was VP Corporate Development of Hotwire, which was sold to Expedia for $685 million in 2003.

Through his startup studio and venture capital firm, 75 & Sunny, Spencer is an active angel investor in more than 100 companies and is incubating several more. He serves as executive chair of dot.LA, a news site covering the Los Angeles tech scene. He is also co-founder and board chair of Pacaso, the company pioneering a new way to own a second home. He is co-chair of Supernova, a family of Special Purpose Acquisition Companies, which take public great private companies. Supernova I merged with Offerpad, a leading real estate company, in Fall 2021, and Supernova II merged with quantum computing company Rigetti Computing in March 2022. Spencer is on the Board of Directors of Palantir, and is a former Board member of Zillow Group (Nasdaq: ZG), TripAdvisor (Nasdaq: TRIP), Zulily (Nasdaq: ZU), Julep, and several other tech companies. He is on the Board of Advisors for PledgeLA, a coalition working to increase diversity, equity and community engagement in LA’s tech community.

Spencer is a Visiting Professor at Harvard University where he teaches the StudioLab on Creativity and Entrepreneurship -- Startups from Ideation to Exit through the Lemann Program on Creativity and Entrepreneurship (LPCE). In Fall 2019, Spencer was also a Visiting Professor at Harvard Business School where he co-created and co-taught the “Managing Tech Ventures” course. In 2015, Spencer co-wrote and published the New York Times’ Best Seller “Zillow Talk: Rewriting the Rules of Real Estate.” Spencer is the host of "Office Hours,” a podcast featuring candid conversations between prominent executives on leadership, diversity and inclusion, and startups. Before his consumer web career, Spencer worked in investment banking at Goldman Sachs and in private equity at TPG Capital. He is also a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization. Spencer graduated cum laude from Harvard University.

prnewswire.com • 6 min read

Match Group Appoints Laura Jones and Spencer Rascoff to Board of Directors

Pacaso is now starting  an exciting expansion phase to revolutionize vacation home ownership across the nation. More on the news via CNBC: https://lnkd.in/gWcaz3XC

200x more listings + more price points. And the best part? If you like a home that’s not yet a Pacaso, you have the power to unlock it for co-ownership — the Pacaso Crew transforms listings with the most buyer interest into fully furnished, luxury homes. Awesome. 

Find your Pacaso today: pacaso.com

cnbc.com • 3 min read

Vacation home co-ownership platform Pacaso expands to lower-priced listings

If you find yourself around Cambridge this evening, I’m giving a talk about startups at Harvard University at 7pm.

Social media friends, I want your help in finding Steven & Sheryl! Apparently they met for the “longest one night stand in history” at Franks Bar & Grill in Manhattan Beach, CA in 1981 😊 

Have you ever written on a bill like this?

In my recent Harvard course on Entrepreneurship (ES 94), we examined a compelling case study on Drift, a Salesloft company founded by David Cancel. The study highlights Drift's challenges with converting freemium users and the crucial decision of hiring its first salesperson. It’s a common dilemma faced by startups today. 

Drift considered three candidates: an experienced sales leader, a top-performing individual contributor, and a versatile salesperson with product strategy skills.

Who would you choose for your first sales hire? 

#HarvardES94 #startup #sales #SaaS #entrepreneurship #Drift #salesperson #salescareers #entrepreneur #startupfounder #hiring #salesrecruiting

Spencer Rascoff on LinkedIn • 2 min read

Navigating the First Sales Hire: A Critical Choice for Startups

Pacaso second home data shared in today's The New York Times.

nytimes.com • 3 min read

The Hottest Luxury Second-Home Markets

I love sharing Pacaso owner stories like the Kasms', as featured in USA TODAY, who made their vacation home dreams a reality with Pacaso.

Learn how Pacaso's co-ownership model achieves luxury without the hefty price tag: https://lnkd.in/gtxUszY9

Thanks, Betty Lin-Fisher for sharing the positive impact of Pacaso co-ownership!

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