Jocelyn Goldfein

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Jocelyn Goldfein is an American technology executive and investor. She is the managing director and a general partner at venture capital firm Zetta Venture Partners. Previously she was a director of engineering at Facebook and vice president of engineering at VMware. [1]

Venture capital start-up investment

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Facebook Global online social networking service

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VMware Company that makes virtualization software; publicly traded subsidiary of Dell

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Biography

Goldfein attended Stanford University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in computer science in 1997. [2] After college, Goldfein started her career at Trilogy. [2] Later, she spent seven years at VMware, eventually becoming vice president of engineering. [3] While at VMware, she worked on their core virtualization offering and began their desktop business. [4] She moved on to become director of engineering at Facebook where her teams worked on several features, including news feed and search. [5] She is the managing director and a general partner at venture capital firm Zetta Venture Partners, as well as a guest lecturer at Stanford University, angel investor, and advisor. [1] [4] She is a member of the board of Harvey Mudd College. [4]

Stanford University Private research university in Stanford, California

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Trilogy (company) American software company

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She spoke at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in 2012, [5] and delivered a keynote address at Women 2.0's HowTo conference in 2014. [2] In 2017, she was named to Business Insider's list of "43 Most Powerful Female Engineers." [4]

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Women 2.0 is a global network and social platform for aspiring and current female founders of technology ventures. It was founded in April 2006 and primarily provides an incubator for ideas program for engineers, designers, business, and marketing participants who want to launch and develop their own high-technology ventures.

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References

  1. 1 2 Griffith, Erin (January 10, 2017). "Zetta Venture Partners Hires Jocelyn Goldfein". Fortune. Retrieved June 17, 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 "Get to Know Keynote Speaker Jocelyn Goldfein, Director of Engineering at Facebook". Women2. August 5, 2014. Retrieved October 4, 2016.
  3. ↑ Cutler, Kim-Mai (June 28, 2010). "Facebook grabs Chrome OS engineering director, VMware VP". VentureBeat. Retrieved October 4, 2016.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Bort, Julie (February 22, 2017). "The 43 most powerful female engineers of 2017". Business Insider. Retrieved June 17, 2018.
  5. 1 2 Bort, Julie (October 2, 2012). "Facebook Engineer Jocelyn Goldfein To Women: Stop Being Scared Of Computer Science". Business Insider. Retrieved October 4, 2016.
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