Joe Kraus
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Joe Kraus is a Partner at Google Ventures.[1]Previously, he worked as the Director of Product Management at Google.
Joe is also on the Board of Directors at the Electronic Frontier Foundation[2] and OpenCandy.[3]
Joe Kraus was an early starter in the Internet and has extensive experience therein. He was the Co-founder of a few startups.
One of Joe's earliest job was duplicating microfiche. The next summer he started a T-shirt design company and made $25,000 in one summer. In 1993, Joe Kraus went on to start Excite (a search engine) with four of his friends, with $3 million in funding from Vinod Khosla and Kleiner Perkins. Excite had its IPO in 1996, and Joe Kraus's shares in Excite were worth $12 million. He was just 24 at that time.
Mr. Kraus has also invested in startups such as HomeAway, ngmoco, RelayRides, OpenCandy and gomiso.
Startups
- Co-founder at Excite.com, a search engine. Excite was later sold to @Home for $7.2 Billion in 1999 [4]
- Co-founder at DigitalConsumer.org[5]
- Co-founder and CEO at JotSpot. In 2006, Joe sold JotSpot to Google and moved to Google.[6]
Interviews and Presentations
- Lessons from Silicon Valley, interview with Peter Day [7]
- Speaker at TechCrunch Disrupt.[8]
- Speaker at Emerging Technology Conference[9]
- Confessions of a Startup Addict[10]
- Explains the social Web at Supernova 2008 conference[11]
- VV Show #4[12]
- No. 1 mistake: Not being persistent enough and not hiring well and/or hiring too fast[13]
- The Joe Kraus Q&A[14]
- An interview with Google's Joe Kraus on How to Make the Web More Social[15]
- How Exciting![16]
- Joe Kraus at Web 2.0 Conference[17]