David Sacks

Partner & Co-Founder at Craft Ventures · Joined 2017

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Biography

David Sacks was PayPal's first product leader and later its COO, part of the group later nicknamed the 'PayPal Mafia,' before founding Yammer, an enterprise social networking company he built and sold to Microsoft for $1.2 billion. He co-founded Craft Ventures in 2017 with Bill Lee, built around a deliberately operator-led model - the firm has grown to $3.3 billion in total assets under management following its 2023 Craft IV and Growth II funds. Craft's early investments include Airbnb, Facebook, Palantir, and SpaceX, and its 2017 investment in Reddit was still on the books when the company went public in 2024. Sacks has become known for being unusually public about his own investing framework, and has since taken on a public policy role advising on AI and crypto matters.

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Notable Investments

Reddit RDDTAirbnbFacebook METAPalantir PLTRSpaceX SPCXUber UBER

Career Timeline

1999
Joins PayPal as its first product leader, later becoming COO.
2008
Founds Yammer, an enterprise social networking company.
2012
Microsoft acquires Yammer for $1.2 billion.
2017
Co-founds Craft Ventures with Bill Lee.
2023
Craft closes its IV and Growth II funds, bringing total AUM to $3.3 billion.
2024
Portfolio company Reddit goes public on NYSE.

Sources & References

Craft Ventures - Announcing $1.3B ↗Craft Ventures ↗