M.G. Siegler (born November 2, 1981) is a general partner at

Google Ventures GV is a venture capital investment arm of Alphabet Inc., founded by Bill Maris, that provides seed, venture, and growth stage funding to technology companies. Founded as Google Ventures in 2009, the firm has operated independently of Google, Alph ...

, where he primarily focuses on seed and early-stage investments.

Early life and education

He is originally from Ohio, and obtained his B.S. from the

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

in 2004.

Career

After graduation, he moved out to

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to get a job in Hollywood, and took on tasks such as a set PA and a script reader. He then moved to San Diego, where he did front-end

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. During his stint as a web developer, he started taking blogging more seriously, which helped him get noticed by

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. He became a blogger for

from 2007 to 2009, and a blogger for

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from 2009 to 2014. As a blogger, much of his blogging focused on

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, and he was "known best for his unabashed pro-Apple bias". He became a partner at

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in 2011, where he helped build a portfolio including Airbnb, Betable, Crowdtilt, Ifttt, Karma, Mailbox, Path, Square, Uber, Vine, and Yammer. He left

for

in May 2013. He serves on the board for

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. He has invested in companies like

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and

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. He regularly maintains a blog on

called "500ish Words", and was interviewed in the documentary

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References

External links

TechCrunch blog entries
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