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Bump co-founder, Google Photos creator, now YC General Partner
Credibility
Portfolio Scale · 81th percentile
- Angel portfolio of 70+ startups including Flexport, Rippling, Zip, eero, Skydio, and Convex.
- Publicly identified as an active angel investor in 70+ startups since 2013.
Relationship Matrix
Founder score
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)Y Combinator alum: Bump was part of the Summer 2009 batch.
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)Past co-founder and CEO of Bump Technologies (acquired by Google in 2013).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)ycombinator.com ranks #723 on the Majestic Million (global domain prominence).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Bump was founded with co-founders (co-founder and CEO role).
- 95%Probability of being accurate (95%)Product-led operator: created Google Photos and scaled it past 1 billion users.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Bump raised nearly $20M in venture funding from Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, and SV Angel before its Google acquisition.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Named inventor on 4 granted US patents assigned to Google LLC, including automatic image sharing systems.
Investor score
- 98%Probability of being accurate (98%)General Partner at Y Combinator (top-tier accelerator/VC).
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Over 11 years of active investing experience since 2013.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Publicly identified as an active angel investor in 70+ startups since 2013.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Portfolio acquisition: eero acquired by Amazon.
- 88%Probability of being accurate (88%)Portfolio acquisition: Physera acquired by Omada Health.
- 85%Probability of being accurate (85%)Angel portfolio of 70+ startups including Flexport, Rippling, Zip, eero, Skydio, and Convex.
What you likely need
You sit at a rare intersection: a YC alum who built and sold a top consumer app, created a billion-user product inside Google, and now backs founders as a YC General Partner and prolific angel. The most valuable Festival events for you are small, high-signal rooms with peer partners, exceptional consumer/AI founders, and operators who've scaled products to hundreds of millions of users. Prioritize gatherings that sharpen your investment theses and expand your founder-picking edge.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- introsA closed-door dinner with fellow YC Group Partners and top-tier seed GPs to compare notes on the current batch's AI-native consumer companies
- tacticalA roundtable with founders building the next Google Photos-scale consumer AI product, framed around distribution and product intuition
- introsA YC S09/S11-era alumni happy hour to reconnect with peer founder-turned-investors like your Bump-era cohort
- hiringA Google Photos / ex-Google PM alumni dinner to source founding-team talent for YC companies you're advising
- tacticalA private angel investor peer group to pressure-test follow-on decisions across your Flexport / Rippling / Convex / Granola portfolio
- positioningA product-craft workshop for consumer founders on 'cognitive overhead' and irreducible design, led by you as a fireside chat
- wellbeingA small SF founder-partner wellbeing dinner on sustaining energy through long batch cycles and repeated founder office hours