Vernon Anderson
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVernon Anderson is an operator-investor who pairs 15 years of product and platform leadership at Google, Meta, and BCG with active angel investing across AI infra, VR/XR, AV/EV, and fintech. He has a proven knack for taking ambiguous, experimental hardware and AI-infused platforms from 0-to-1 and scaling them into capital-efficient, global business units—having led multi-market launches for Oculus, Portal, and Google’s Pixel/Smart Home portfolio. Vernon combines CEO-level program execution with investor discipline, managing a venture portfolio that includes Scale AI, Cohere, and Lambda Labs and applying an "Operator-as-a-Service" approach to accelerate startups. His leadership mantra—user first, team second, ego last—underscores a track record of building the operational engines that sustain billion-dollar P&Ls. Based in the Bay Area, he also mixes cultural investment with tech bets, most recently as a Tony-nominated investor on Broadway, reflecting a taste for asymmetric, cross-domain opportunities.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Executive Program Certificate, Venture Capital, Executive Program Certificate, Venture Capital at University of California, BerkeleyMPA, Public Administration/Public Affairs, MPA, Public Administration/Public Affairs at Virginia TechMaster of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Global Management, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Global Management at Radford University
Github Skills (16)
duke7
chisel7
scala7
rocket-chip7
twist6
python5
userspace5
linux5
displays4
arm4
x864
x86-644
android4
emulation4
overlay3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gowgos5/FloatMap
May 2019 - Jul 2019
A supplement to the Grab Driver app. Essentially a map overlay that displays over the job cards to provide more information regarding the pick-up and drop-off locations.
Contributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 16 pushes in 1 month
grabdisplayssupplementpickoverlay
gowgos5/aes-verilog
Apr 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:29 commits, 2 pushes in 7 months
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