Beginning in door-to-door sales in high school, David has learned the value closing the sale. One pitch led to a full-time job at McCaw Cellular, now AT&T. In the mid-1990's at Morgan Stanley he helped finance the buildout of nationwide mobile networks working with what is now T-Mobile and Verizon, and later researching the emerging Mobile Internet.

After receiving a stern reprimand in 1995 from Morgan Stanley for using Internet email, David jumped at the chance to join Netscape where he learned from some great leaders and managers. After pitching in on strategy, he led the Directory & Security division that offered among the first commercial products supporting Linux and open source. Later David led AOL's Communications, Community & Instant Messaging product divisions as they surpassed 50MM users worldwide. David then joined Tellme Networks as SVP Marketing & Business Development. Using a quantitative framework called Rifle, his team helped grow the company's revenue beyond $100M in revenue and to profitability. Microsoft subsequently acquired Tellme.

David's investments have focused on Internet software, services and communications. At Khosla Ventures, David has led investments including Aliph aka Jawbone, Bitfone (HPQ), iLike, RingCentral, Slide and WideOrbit. Prior personal investments and advisor relationships include Good Technology (MOT), Ingenio (T), loopt, LogMeIn, Opsware (HPQ), SmartPay and Tellme (MSFT).

David grew up in Seattle and graduated from Harvard magna cum laude with highest honors in the special major Organizational Behavior and Economics, with additional coursework at MIT and NYU in engineering. He lives with his family in Portola Valley, California and can be reached at dw@khoslaventures.com.