{"id":30196,"date":"2024-03-27T12:32:08","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T12:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/najafi.capital\/individual-investor\/individual-angel-jon-gelsey\/"},"modified":"2024-03-27T12:32:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T12:32:08","slug":"individual-angel-jon-gelsey","status":"publish","type":"individual-investor","link":"https:\/\/najafi.capital\/pl\/individual-investor\/individual-angel-jon-gelsey\/","title":{"rendered":"Individual\/Angel: Jon Gelsey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-CEO of Xnor.ai, which created deep neural network machine learning models that enable powerful AI even on highly resource-constrained platforms. Xnor was acquired by Apple in January 2020. Ex-CEO of Auth0, an IDaaS that eliminates the friction of identity for apps, APIs &#038; IoT, as it grew from 5 employees to nearly 300 employees internationally. Auth0 has raised a over $100M in venture capital from top-tier investors. During Jon&#8217;s tenure as CEO, Auth0 acquired customers in 100&#038; countries, developed an engineering, marketing, sales, finance and ops team that was distributed across 35 countries, with offices in Bellevue, London, Buenos Aires and Sydney, and a valuation exceeding a half-billion dollars. Broad and deep experience with VC\/M&#038;A deal analysis, evaluation, structuring, and execution, specializing in deals with complex tech &#038; biz model components. Excellent negotiation skills. Excels in senior leadership positions charting new territories in technologies, products or business models. Publicly disclosed xactions at Microsoft: Greenfield Online, Powerset, Kidaro, Calista, Multimap, N-trig, Tellme, StorSimple, HLW Software, and Apiphany. These deals generated $1.6B&#038; in incremental operating income to Microsoft; Jon led 1\/3 of all of Microsoft&#8217;s acquisitions closed in &#8217;13 . Product management for the Convex Exemplar SPP-1xxx (acquired by HP to become the Superdome server line), and Mentor Calibre (most successful product of all time for the company). System architecture &#038; design projects include the most successful minisupercomputer of all time (Convex C2), world&#8217;s first commercially available GaAs supercomputer (Convex C3), and the massively parallel Convex SPP, which became the HP Superdome. IC design experience includes CMOS, ECL and GaAs memory &#038; cache controllers, as well as CPU arithmetic units. 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