Adam Smith

Adam has over twenty years of experience managing and building large scale technical organizations for both start-ups and major corporations. He is currently a partner at Bowery Capital.

Website: www.bowerycap.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamdouglassmith
Twitter: https://twitter.com/adamsventures
San Francisco, California, United States
Accredited investor
Member since April 01, 2011

Adam Smith is a Google product veteran, seed investor since 2009 and is looking for early B2B companies building sales teams. Quote_down

About

Investor interests

Type of investor	Early stage VC
Typical investment size	$250k - $500k
Typical investments in a year	8
Investments partners	Mike Brown
Categories of interest	Information technology Business to Business (B2B) Development Enterprise software Security Software as a service (SaaS)
Locations of interest	San Francisco, California, United States New York City, New York, United States Washington, District Of Columbia, United States Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Credentials	Accredited Investor, Qualified Purchaser

Education

2001 MIT Media Lab , MS , Media Arts and Sciences

1999 Columbia University , BS , Mechanical Engineering

1999 Bowdoin College , BA , Physics and Studio Art

I am a(n):

Investor

Companies I work or worked for:

Google

My favorite startups:

SocialFlow, Shopobot, SocialFlow

What's most frustrating and rewarding about entrepreneurship/innovation?

Not knowing that your idea is going to work

What's the No. 1 mistake entrepreneurs/innovators make?

Not asking for help early before it's too late.

Full bio

Adam has over twenty years of experience managing and building large scale technical organizations for both start-ups and major corporations. Prior to Bowery, Adam was a General Partner at AOL Ventures. Before AOL, he spent 7 years as a product manager at Google where he earned the Founders Award for starting and leading the Ads Quality Team. He was also a key member in the Google search results page re-design. When he’s not working, Adam spends his “free” time rock climbing, running and enjoying the wonders of fatherhood.

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