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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

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]

References

[1]
Citation Linkfacebook.comArjun Sethi on Facebook
Nov 6, 2018, 5:46 PM
[2]
Citation Linkcrunchbase.comArjun Sethi on Crunchbase
Nov 6, 2018, 5:47 PM
[3]
Citation Linkbloomberg.comAnother Social Capital Partner Departs Venture Capital Firm
Nov 6, 2018, 5:52 PM
[4]
Citation Linktwitter.comArjun Sethi on Twitter
Nov 6, 2018, 5:53 PM
[5]
Citation Linklinkedin.comArjun Sethi on LinkedIn
Nov 6, 2018, 5:53 PM
[6]
Citation Linkhackernoon.comArjun Sethi on Hacker Noon
Nov 6, 2018, 6:09 PM
[7]
Citation Linkangel.coArjun Sethi on AngelList
Nov 6, 2018, 6:20 PM
[8]
Citation Linkwww.youtube.comE16: "Angel": Arjun Sethi Social Capital: from founder MessageMe & Yahoo head of growth to investing
Nov 6, 2018, 5:54 PM
[9]
Citation Linkwww.youtube.comArjun Sethi On Yahoo's New App Livetext
Nov 6, 2018, 5:54 PM