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After earning a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from Stanford´s Graduate School of Business,
Dave found his way to Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Texas Pacific Group Ventures,
where he developed and incubated numerous investments. Throughout, Dave was mentored by some of the best in the business,
including Brook Byers, John Doerr, Bruce Dunlevie, Wally Hawley, Vinod Khosla and Dave Strohm.
Dave has been called a "serial entrepreneur." He has served as founding CEO of Good Technology (acquired by Motorola);
co-founder of Drugstore.com (DSCM); co-founding board member of Newschools Venture Fund, and general manager and president of Optical Engineering, Inc. Dave also worked at Netscape, Hewlett Packard and Bain.
Dave currently serves on the board of directors of SuccessFactors (SFSF), Cuil and Rich Relevance. Tugboat is also an investor in SayNow and UltraRPM.
Prior investments that Dave led include Blue Nile (NILE), Business Signatures (acquired by Entrust), Rojo Networks (acquired by SixApart) and Cranium. Prior to Tugboat, Dave was an angel investor in Bella Pictures, LimeLife and Wikia.
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