David Thacker
Vice President, Product at Google DeepMind
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Vice President, Product
2024 - Current
Venture Partner
2020 - 2024
Greylock is an early-stage venture capital firm that has backed startups such as Airbnb, LinkedIn, Meta, Roblox, Figma, Palo Alto Networks and Workday. I led Investments in startups and partnered with exceptional founding teams.
Greylock Partners invests in entrepreneurs that focus on consumer and enterprise software companies.
Vice President, Product Management & User Experience
2017 - 2020
Returned to Google to help build the emergent Google Cloud business. Led the product, UX, and data science teams for Google Workspace, which is the suite of productivity apps that includes Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Meet & Voice.
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Vice President, Product
2013 - 2017
Led the teams building products for LinkedIn's various businesses, including hiring & recruiting solutions, sales tools, consumer subscriptions, and advertising products. Helped scale the company through an acquisition by Microsoft in 2016.
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Vice President, Product Management & General Manager
2011 - 2013
Led product development for AI & marketplace products. During this time, Groupon was one of the fastest growing companies in history and had an IPO.
Groupon is a deal-of-the-day website that offers discounted gift certificates usable at local or national companies.
Raised $1,387,000,000.00 from MIG Capital, RTP Global and Atairos.
Associate Partner
2009 - 2011
Investor and advisor to early stage technology startup including Pandora (acquired by SiriusXM), Redfin (IPO), Cloudera (IPO), TellApart (acquired by Twitter), Gowalla (acquired by Facebook) and 1000Memories (acquired by Ancestry).
Greylock Partners invests in entrepreneurs that focus on consumer and enterprise software companies.
Group Product Manager
2003 - 2008
Served as a product lead for AdWords, and built advertising products ultimately used by millions of businesses worldwide. During this time Google IPO'd and grew revenue 14x to $21B. I also relocated to London for two years to build Google’s R&D teams in Europe.
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Software Engineer / Consulting Team Manager
1997 - 2001
Played various technical roles at this e-commerce software startup and helped scale it through an IPO.