Josh Hannah

Josh Hannah is a venture capitalist and entrepreneur. He is a general partner with Matrix Partners in Palo Alto, California.[1]

Josh Hannah
Other namesJosh
OccupationVenture capitalist

Education and early life

Hannah received degrees from University of California at Berkeley and Stanford.[2]

Career

Hannah was CEO and co-founder of Flutter.com which merged with Betfair in 2002.[3] Betfair now does over $50 billion in annual transactions.[4] Hannah continues to serve as non-executive director at Betfair.

In 2004, Hannah and Jack Herrick bought eHow out of financial distress. After turning the company around, Herrick and Hannah sold eHow to Demand Media in 2006. During the sale of eHow, Hannah and Herrick spun wikiHow out of eHow and personally financed it so it could remain an independent organization.[5]

Hannah joined Matrix Partners in 2009. Through Matrix and as an angel investor Hannah has invested in dozens of Silicon Valley companies. A few of his investments include: Quora, AngelList, LikeALittle, Covestor, Huddle, Ning, Aardvark, Inflection, wikiHow, Minted, Huddler, Taulia, Jirafe, Dealbase, Canva, Phonezoo, Wetpaint, DesignerApparel, Bonanzle, Bacon Salt, Blingo, NetProspex, Nirvaha, and Kinnek.[6]

gollark: I think my school just assumes everyone will have laptops or something.
gollark: Except that the fan seems to be a bit broken because it's somewhat loud under load, really should fix that somehow.
gollark: I got a used business laptop for £140 and added £30 worth of extra storage and RAM and it's much better than an equivalently priced Chromebook.
gollark: You can install Linux on many of them, but they're still not very powerful.
gollark: You can play all the fun games like Cookie Clicker and Emu War Online, what more do you want?

References
  1. https://venturebeat.com/2009/02/03/betfaircom-co-founder-josh-hannah-joins-matrix-partnrs/
  2. http://www.linkedin.com/in/joshhannah
  3. "Home".
  4. https://venturebeat.com/2009/02/03/betfaircom-co-founder-josh-hannah-joins-matrix-partnrs/
  5. "WikiHow:History of wikiHow - wikiHow".
  6. https://angel.co/jdh


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