Scott Weiss

Scott Weiss
Weiss in 2013
Alma materUniversity of Florida (B.A.)
Harvard University (M.B.A.)
OccupationVenture capitalist
Known forGeneral Partner at Andreessen Horowitz

Scott Weiss is an American venture capitalist at the Silicon Valley firm Andreessen Horowitz, joining in April 2011 as the firm's fourth general partner.[1] A native of Sarasota, Florida,[2] he founded and was CEO of IronPort Systems,[3] which Cisco acquired in 2007 for $830 million.[1]

Education

Weiss received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Florida and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.[4]

Early career

Weiss was an associate at McKinsey & Company and spent his first five years out of college at Electronic Data Systems.[4] He then headed MSN business development at Microsoft and was employee no. 13 at Hotmail, an email provider that Microsoft acquired in 1998.[3] At Hotmail, Weiss was responsible for partnership and revenue generating business development efforts.[4]

Prior to 2001, Weiss was the managing director and entrepreneur in residence at Idealab, a business incubator.[4]

Weiss was vice president and general manager of Cisco's Security Technology Group, a position he assumed following Cisco's acquisition of email appliance provider IronPort Systems.[3] Weiss co-founded IronPort Systems in 2001 with Scott Banister,[2] with whom he had worked at Idealab. Over the next six years, IronPort Systems grew from two people into a company with 450 employees and a $200 million run rate.[2]

Andreessen Horowitz

He serves on the boards of Distelli, Platfora, Silver Tail Systems, Bluebox, and Jumio[4] as well as Skout,[5] App.Net,[6] and Return Path.[7]

Weiss is credited with bringing to the firm 360-degree feedback performance reviews of partners by other partners, venture firms and entrepreneurs of the companies in Andreessen Horowitz's portfolio. This type of performance review is an unusual practice for venture capital firms.[8]

Scott Weiss joined the Board of Directors of Optimizely as part of Andreesen Horowitz's Series B round in the company.[9]

Weiss was previously on the Board of Directors of Skout, the social mobile company that was sold in 2016 to The Meet Group.[10][11][12]

References

  1. ^ a b Tam, Pui-Wing (1 March 2011). "Andreessen Horowitz Adds Another General Partner". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
  2. ^ a b c Weiss, Scott. "About". Blog. Andreesseen Horowitz. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
  3. ^ a b c Primack, Dan (1 March 2011). "Andreessen Horowitz names its fourth partner". CNNMoney. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Scott Weiss". Executive Profile. Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved 10 August 2012.[dead link]
  5. ^ Wauters, Robin (3 April 2012). "Location-based flirting app Skout hooks up with Andreessen Horowitz, scores $22 million". TNW Insider. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
  6. ^ Isaac, Mike (2 August 2012). "Marc Andreessen Steps Down From Dalton Caldwell's Mixed Media Labs Board". All Things D. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
  7. ^ "Board of Directors". Website. Return Path. Archived from the original on 16 August 2012. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
  8. ^ Geron, Tomio (1 March 2011). "New Andreessen Horowitz Hire Keeps Focus On Entrepreneurs". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
  9. ^ "Website Testing Company Optimizely Raises $57M Round Led By Andreessen Horowitz". TechCrunch. May 5, 2014. Retrieved March 17, 2015.
  10. ^ "Company Overview of Andreessen Horowitz LLC". www.bloomberg.com.
  11. ^ "Social, Mobile, Local - Scott Weiss". a16z.com.
  12. ^ "MeetMe acquires mobile flirting app Skout for $55 million in cash and stock". venturebeat.com. 27 June 2016.

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