Hi, I'm Yan-David

What I'm up to

• COO & CRO at Weights & Biases, the developer-first MLOps Platform. In this role, I've built out and lead the GTM, Data, BizOps, and Strategy teams. I currently run the GTM (Sales & Customer Success) and Data Science teams.

• Active angel investor, including in Thumbtack and MasterClass.

What I've done

• 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), Fin (Seed & Series A), Abacus (Series B), Covariant (Series B), and Raycast (Series A)
• Founded 4 venture-backed B2B companies, including ChoiceVendor (acquired by LinkedIn) and Parsable.
• Helped start MuckerLab, LA's premier venture accelerator
• 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

• Twitter/X
• Medium
• LinkedIn
• 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