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Clarity

Dave Sifry

San Francisco Bay Area

Geek, CS Nerd, product designer and experienced CEO and CTO. Technology innovator and architect. Advisor and Angel Investor. Love helping startups. (Founder CEO Offbeat Guides, Technorati, Linuxcare, Sputnik, more...)

I’ve been building and running software and internet companies for over 20 years. I started and built 6 companies, varying from enterprise software, linux services, wireless, fitness, and blog search. I’ve also raised more than $100M for previous companies.

Expertise:
Bizdev
Engineering
Marketing
Funding
Strategy

$16.67/min

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92 Calls

52

52 Reviews

about 1 hour
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Entrepreneurship Start-ups Product Management Linux Venture Capital Entrepreneur Organizational Development Venture Funding Due diligence MySQL

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Technology and Architecture

I've designed and built scalable technology infrastructures for companies that serve billions of unique users each month, and that provide hundreds of millions of updates each day. I've made nearly every mistake in the book, and learned how to live life on the bleeding edge of technology infrastructure.

Venture Funding

The companies I've founded have raised over $100 Million from a variety of terrific investors, and as an advisor and board member of a number of startups, I love coaching teams on how to get the investment they need - and also the downsides and challenges that come when you take VC money.

Organizational Development

I've built 5 companies as a founder, CTO, and CEO - from a pure startup to a 450+ person fast-growing organization, and I've got a lot of battle scars about how to build, organize, hire, and fire, and the importance of values and culture in building successful companies.

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Reviews

Excellent conversation and highly insightful. Definitely worth it and would highly recommend it.

Catalin Matei Source: Clarity

Dave was kind, knowledgeable and the conversation would have been great if I had been just starting out. But in the short time we spoke we really didn't get into the meat of the matter, which is more the shortcoming of the medium. Sometimes the Clarity format just does not work for more subtle questions.

Deryk Wenaus Source: Clarity

Dave was extremely easy to talk to, rapidly understood our business, wasn’t shy about pushing back on flawed assumptions. Shared numerous actionable strategies for enterprise selling. Most importantly, helped me realize I was afraid of success when I really just need to take the plunge and remember that I am in control. Came off the call feeling intensely impatient to begin executing on many of the points we discussed. I highly recommend using him as a sounding board. Money well spent.

Tamer Mehanna Source: Clarity

Great help, helped me map out some of the CTO/VP-Eng structure and hiring inside that group!

Ben Fox Source: Clarity

Dave is a genuis. For anything on Org Development and team building he will be my go to resource.

murali sajja Source: Clarity

Dave was able to understand my project in a short amount of time, and his advice was very helpful. I definitely got clear direction and strategy from the time chatting with Dave. Will definitely schedule a call again when it’s needed in the near future.

Eva Liu Source: Clarity

Very insightful and to the point. Very actionable advise given, will be contacting again if the need arises.

Justin Tibble Source: Clarity

Dave was clear and concise with his advice. Made some good recommendations that we'll be implementing very soon!

Hin Lai Source: Clarity

Chatting with Dave we amazing he really spent the time to get to know our situation before giving feedback. World class advice!

Oisin O'Connor Source: Clarity

Very good

victor martinez martinez Source: Clarity

Dave was super helpful, he gave great and candid advice.

Bola Adegbulu Source: Clarity

Member since August 2012