Kristina Chodorow

My hobby is boxing. I love sparring because it's like a game of chess: every punch you throw opens up your defense, so you have to be strategic. The only limits are how fast and brave you are. I feel like there are some parallels to building a company, particularly when you take a punch to the face and come back swinging.

Kristina is an engineering partner at GV.

In 2008, she joined MongoDB as employee #3 and helped the company grow to several hundred people.

She then joined Google’s developer infrastructure team, where she spent several years leading efforts to develop and open source Bazel, Google’s internal build tool. She has written several O’Reilly books and given talks at conferences all over the world.