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For much of the last three decades, Jeff's focus has been on building purpose-driven companies that create lasting value, helping leaders realize their potential, and aspiring to manage compassionately. He is the founding partner of Next Play Ventures, an early and growth stage venture fund focused on coaching and investing in entrepreneurial leaders building world-class, purpose-driven organizations. Previously, Jeff spent over 17 years at LinkedIn, including over 11 years as CEO and six as Executive Chairman. During his tenure as CEO, LinkedIn grew from 338 employees and $78M in revenue to over 16,000 employees and $7.9B in revenue, and expanded its membership from 33M to more than 690M. Throughout, he prioritized LinkedIn's vision of creating economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Jeff is also a founding LP and Investment Committee member at Westbound Equity Partners, an early stage fund backing diverse founders and companies serving underserved communities. Additionally, he is co-founder of The Compassion Project, a nonprofit working to ensure compassion is taught in every elementary school in the United States. Earlier in his career, Jeff was an Executive in Residence at Accel Partners and Greylock Partners, advising consumer technology portfolio companies and evaluating new investments. Before that, he spent seven years at Yahoo!, ultimately serving as EVP of the Network Division, where he led the company's consumer web portfolio including the Front Page, Mail, Search, and Media products. Jeff currently serves on the advisory board of the Boys & Girls Club of the Peninsula and has previously served on the boards of Intuit, DonorsChoose.org, Everfi, and Malaria No More.
Our mission is to coach and invest in entrepreneurial leaders building world-class, purpose-driven organizations. Focus primarily on early stage and growth opportunities, e.g., Esusu, Entire, Brilliant, Lakeshore Learning, BRINC Drones, Blockit, Cloaked, and more
Investments include Figma, Notion, Brex, Scale, Headspace, Vox Media and more. Previous exits include Slack (IPO) and Cloudera (IPO).
Advisor and member of the investment committee for early stage fund and foundation focused on empowering diverse founders, start-ups serving underserved communities, and companies committed to building diverse teams.
The Compassion Project is an initiative designed to ensure compassion is taught in every primary school in the U.S. To date, 34k schools have registered, impacting over 1M students. Co-founded with Everfi, an innovative edtech provider that has been essential in developing and distributing the coursework.
BGCP’s mission is to help its members develop the academic and life skills they need to complete high school ready for college and career. BGCP serves youth in grades K–12 at nine locations: three clubhouses and six school sites in East Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Redwood City, where over half the youth drop out of high school. While most youth development organizations select the young people whom they serve, BGCP serves all youth. The organization has grown rapidly over the past five years and now serves 2,000 active members at its nine sites.
Help LinkedIn realize its vision of creating economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Continue to mentor and coach the leadership team, and advise on key strategic initiatives.
Over 11 year tenure as CEO, LinkedIn grew its membership base from 33M to more than 690M, increased its revenue from $78M to $7.9B and expanded the team from 338 employees to over 16,000.