Rob Hayes Biography

Rob has been a partner at First Round Capital since 2006 when the firm opened its office in San Francisco. There he has led investments in companies such as Uber, Mint.com (acquired by Intuit), Gnip (acquired by Twitter), Planet Labs, Eero, TaskRabbit, and Square. Rob came to First Round Capital from Omidyar Network where he was their first venture investor. Omidyar Network was an investment firm started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. Rob led most of Omidyar Network's initial venture capital deals and later built and ran the technology investing group. Rob previously spearheaded complex, system-level product development efforts at companies such as Geoworks and Go Corp where he focused on building products for the Japanese market. He has an MBA from Columbia University and a B.A. from the University of California Berkeley.

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