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Greg Sands
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Greg is a Managing Director at Costanoa Venture Capital, a $165m early stage venture capital firm focused on finding great entrepreneurs using technology to solve real problems and build lasting companies. Prior to founding Costanoa, Greg was a Managing Director at Sutter Hill for 13 years, where he led early stage investments in Feedburner, QuinStreet, Yokou and Merced Systems. He was the first hire at Netscape Communications after its founding engineering team. Starting as a Product Manager, he wrote the initial business plan, coined the name Netscape, and created the SuiteSpot Business Unit, which he grew from zero to $150m in revenue.
Greg has an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and graduated from Harvard College Magna Cum Laude. He currently serves as President of the Stanford DAPER (Athletics Department) Investment Fund and is a Board Member and Former President of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists. Greg currently serves on the boards of Alation, DemandBase, Guardian Analytics, Inflection, Intacct, LinkSmart, Return Path, 3scale, Stitch Labs and Victor Ops. Twitter: @gsands |