Hi, I'm Yan-David

What I've done

• COO & CRO at Weights & Biases, the AI developer platform:

  • Angel investor at the Seed round (2018). Led the Series A, representing Coatue in Jan 2019. Board Director.
  • Joined operationally as Chief Operating Officer in June 2021. Built out the Sales, Customer Success, BD & Partnerships, Strategy, and Data Science teams.
  • Chief Revenue Officer in 2 stints, total of 2 years. Oversaw Sales, Customer Success, Revenue Operations & Strategy globally. Built-out and managed high-performance team. Company hit/beat plan on Gross and Net ARR every quarter I was CRO.

• General Partner at Coatue:

  • Helped start and ran the enterprise investing practice for the Venture funds (Seed through Series B)
  • Led AI/ML investments in Weights & Biases (Series A), Impira (Series B), Infinitus (Series A), Abacus (Series B), Covariant (Series B), and Raycast (Series A)
• Active angel investor, including in Thumbtack and MasterClass. Also helped start MuckerLab, LA's premier venture accelerator.
• Founded 4 venture-backed B2B companies, including ChoiceVendor (acquired by LinkedIn) and Parsable.
• Started my career at Google and Microsoft
  
• Studied Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering. Still write code (mostly Python & Swift for fun these days)

Where to find me

• 𝕏 (fka Twitter)
• LinkedIn
• Medium
• If we work together, I recommend reading my Personal User Manual

Tools you can use

• Many have enjoyed and use my negotiation cheat sheet

• I love building and helping founders. The combo has yielded the below tools:

  • A cap table simulator
  • A blogpost with an associated spreadsheet on how to help employees think through the value of their equity
• In Zoom times, folks have asked me about my camera setup
• Some book recommendations if you like that sort of thing
• I regularly meditate and really enjoy meditation. Here are some of my favorite meditation resources.