Graham Spencer
General Partner
Instead of getting a real job after college graduation, I started Excite with five other friends. It was the early days of the Internet, and no one had a roadmap yet for what an online business should look like. I was the lead engineer, and we had to build everything from scratch. Today, GV has one of the biggest engineering and data sciences teams in the venture capital industry, and we build a lot of internal tools to keep our reflexes sharp.
Graham Spencer is a general partner at GV.
He was an engineering director at Google following the 2006 acquisition of JotSpot, which he co-founded with Joe Kraus. Graham was one of the original six founders of Excite.com and was the chief technology officer of the company until its sale to @Home.
In 1999, Graham left Excite@Home to co-found DigitalConsumer.org, a 50,000-member non-profit consumer organization dedicated to protecting fair-use rights for digital media. Graham is also on the board of the Santa Fe Institute.
Instead of getting a real job after college graduation, I started Excite with five other friends. It was the early days of the Internet, and no one had a roadmap yet for what an online business should look like. I was the lead engineer, and we had to build everything from scratch. Today, GV has one of the biggest engineering and data sciences teams in the venture capital industry, and we build a lot of internal tools to keep our reflexes sharp.