Arjun Sethi (Investor)
Arjun Sethi (Investor)
Arjun Sethi is an investor and entrepreneur based in San Francisco . He is the co-founder and partner at Tribe Capital.[4]
Education
Sethi attended Boston University but would graduate from the University of Maryland, College Park with a BA in history and BS in math.[4]
Career
E16: "Angel": Arjun Sethi Social Capital: from founder MessageMe & Yahoo head of growth to investing
After college, Sethi founded Roflplay in January 2007 which would be acquired by Lolapps a year and a half later.
He would serve as CEO of Lolapps for over 4 years until the company was acquired by 6waves in 2012; he would then become their Chief Product Officer.[4]
Sethi would found and became CEO of MessageMe in 2012.
Two and a half years later, MessageMe would be acquired by Yahoo! and Sethi would join, first as senior director of product management and then head of mobile growth.[6]
In February 2016, Sethi became a partner at Social Capital. He left in 2018 but remains as a board partner. In June 2018, he co-founded his own venture capital fund, Tribe Capital. Sethi serves as a board member for a number of companies including Front, Relativity Space, Cover, Carta, and SFOX as well as been an angel investor in over 100+ startups.[4]
In the past, Sethi has contributed to Hacker Noon , authoring the articles Units of Time are the New Currencyand How to Transform and Build a People Platform, which have received thousands of claps.[5]