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Sarah Leary

Harvard University

Harvard Business School

Co-Founder of Nextdoor. Seasoned entrepreneur, investor, and builder of products, teams, and companies

San Francisco Bay Area

Alto

Board Member

Contra

Invited by Harvard Business School’s Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship to serve a four-year term as an Entrepreneur in Residence to help support entrepreneurship through mentorship of current students and alumni.

Entrepreneur In Residence

Unusual Ventures makes Seed and Series A investments in enterprise and consumer startups. We are unusual because we provide Founders and their teams with hands-on experience and support as they navigate the earliest stages of the entrepreneurial journey. I focus on investing in consumer companies that focus on marketplaces, community networks, and social media. I look for exceptional product-centric founders who are committed to creating great products that consumers love.
Recent investments: Contra, AltoIRA, Outlier, DataBento, Sunshine

Unusual Ventures

Venture Partner

Nextdoor

Co-Founder and Board Observer

Founded, built, and successfully scaled the world's largest private social network of neighborhoods used by XX million members in over 240,000 neighborhoods across 10 countries..

Led all growth, marketing, GTM, operations and international cross-functional efforts for Nextdoor from the first neighborhood to more than 200,000 neighborhoods, covering the entire United States. Pioneered innovative growth strategies including field marketing, direct mail, performance marketing, and partnerships with over 5,000 public agencies. Built the cross-functional team and led the effort to expand into 10 markets across the globe including the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Sweden, and Australia.

Grew membership from one member to more than XX million members with real name and verified identity. Designed the unique community-enabling product experience that allowed authentic grassroots communities to grow organically. Partnered with academic thought-leaders to pioneer tools and product designs to combat unconscious bias on the user-generated content platform. Pioneered research and communications campaigns in early 2018 to raise awareness about growing trends around social isolation and loneliness in the US, Europe, and Australia.

Business leader who co-lead efforts to scale the company from the small founding team to nearly 300 employees in the U.S., Europe, and Australia. Scaled company from concept to product launch to member scale to revenue exploration to revenue generating and on our way to profitability.

Helped secured five rounds of venture funding totally over $400 million from several venture capital and private equity firms, including Benchmark Capital, Greylock Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Tiger Global Management, and Shasta Ventures.

Co-Founder and Vice President, International, Marketing and Operations

Nextdoor (<a href="http://www.nextdoor.com">www.nextdoor.com</a>) is the world's largest private social network for the neighborhood. Using Nextdoor's free online platform, neighbors create private neighborhood websites where members can ask questions, get to know one another and exchange local advice and recommendations. Nextdoor is specifically designed to provide a trusted environment for neighbor-to-neighbor communication. Neighborhoods across the country are using Nextdoor to build happier, safer places to call home.

Co-Founder and Vice President, Marketing

Founded and built, Fanbase, the world's most comprehensive almanac of rich information on pro and college athletes. The website included career info, photos, videos, articles, and discussions on over 1,500,000 people in sports, with all content contributed by fans. <a href="http://www.fanbase.com">www.fanbase.com</a>. Secured two rounds of venture funding from Benchmark Capital and Shasta Ventures.

Fanbase

Co-Founder and Vice President, Product and Marketing

Benchmark Capital

Entrepreneur in Residence

Led the effort to create, brand, and launch <a href="http://Shopping.com">Shopping.com</a>, the newly formed company that resulted from the April 2003 merger of Epinions and DealTime. Following the launch of <a href="http://Shopping.com">Shopping.com</a> in September 2003, moved into the role of Vice President of Product and was responsible for overall product innovation, product management, definition and design for <a href="http://Shopping.com">Shopping.com</a>. Named officer for the Initial Public Offering (IPO) of <a href="http://Shopping.com">Shopping.com</a> in October 2004. Member of the executive team that successfully completed a $620 million deal for eBay to acquire <a href="http://Shopping.com">Shopping.com</a>. Led the cross-functional corporate integration effort to fully integrated <a href="http://Shopping.com">Shopping.com</a> in to eBay in the Fall of 2005.

eBay (formerly Shopping.com)

Vice President, Product and Marketing for Shopping.com

As the Vice President of Product Management, led the team of product managers, designers, and product marketers that redesigned, and rebuilt <a href="http://Epinions.com">Epinions.com</a>.

As the Vice President of Marketing, led a cross functional team to reposition the company as a full service comparison shopping service. The result of this effort was a September 2001 launch of integrated price comparison functionality and eventually sustained profitability.

Previously held position as Director, Content and led the 20 person category management team that built out the content and communities that covered more than 30 categories on Epinions.

Epinions (an eBay Company)

Vice President, Marketing and Product Management

Sourced and vetted software and internet investments for the $3 billion venture capital fund.

Greylock Partners

Associate

Launched the first version of Microsoft Office, as well as Office 95, and Office 97. Helped build Microsoft Office into the desktop applications leader across all categories and into a $5 billion business. Handled everything from traditional product marketing, positioning, third-party vendor relationships, public relations, and launch marketing.