MJ

Matthew Jacobson

Board of Directors at Gitlab

BIO

Mr. Matthew Jacobson serves as General Partner at ICONIQ Capital. He is a Board Member of Twistlock, SendBird and Relativity & highspot . He is also an Angel Investor. He is a Board Observer of Turbonomic and is a Board Member of AppBoy and Sprinklr Japan. Prior to this role he served as the Managing Director. Previously, he served as an Investor at Battery Ventures and Chief Executive Officer of New York at Groupon, where he led the sales and operations for Groupon's largest market, growing revenues 220%. Before Groupon, he spent a number of years with Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV) a $7.7B private equity and venture capital firm, where he focused on investments in the Internet and Software sectors. At TCV, he served as an Investor and has helped source and execute investments in leading Internet and Software businesses including Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN), HomeAway (NASDAQ: AWAY) and Everyday Health. He also worked closely with other companies including Orbitz (NASDAQ: OWW), Adknowledge, TheStreet.com (NASDAQ: TSCM) and Travelport. Prior to TCV, he spent several years at Lehman Brothers, working on a variety of debt and equity financings, M&A transactions and strategic advisory assignments, including advising Yahoo! on Microsoft's unsolicited $44 billion bid for the company. He received a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a dual concentration in Finance and Management. He currently serves on the Executive Advisory Board of Techweek. He serves as Board Member at Gitlab.