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Josh Elman
Josh Elman is a venture partner at Greylock Partners, a prominent venture capital firm.12 He has extensive experience in designing, building, and scaling consumer products, having been part of multiple companies that have grown to more than 100 million users.12
Career Highlights
Product Leadership Roles:: Josh has held significant product and engineering roles at several leading technology companies:
- Twitter: Product lead for growth and relevance, helping grow the active user base by nearly 10x12
- Facebook: Worked on the platform and led the launch of Facebook Connect12
- LinkedIn: Early employee who helped establish user growth models and launched v1 of LinkedIn Jobs12
- Zazzle: Led product management12
- RealNetworks: Worked on product and engineering for RealJukebox and RealPlayer12
Venture Capital:: At Greylock Partners, Josh has led investments in several successful startups:
- SmartThings (acquired by Samsung in 2014)123
- Musical.ly (now TikTok, acquired by Toutiao in 2017)23
- Jelly (acquired by Pinterest in 2017)23
- Houseparty (acquired by Epic Games in 2019)23
He also serves on the boards of Medium, Discord, and Mammoth Media.2
Recent Role
Most recently, Josh served as the VP of Product at Robinhood, helping the team build tools to broaden access to the financial system.2
Education
Josh holds a BS in Symbolic Systems with a focus on Human Computer Interaction from Stanford University.12
Josh Elman's experience spans product development, engineering, and venture capital, making him a valuable asset in identifying and nurturing promising startups in the consumer technology space.
Highlights
Getting to work with @pandemona and @noradio at Twitter was such a gift and seeing them build this new product together reminds me of those amazing times. What a beautiful new way to know and explore what is happening…
Thank you to all Veterans who have worked so hard to protect this country 🇺🇸 including my grandfather Earl 🙏
