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Robert Siegel is a lecturer in management and has taught seven different courses in his time at Stanford. He has led primary research and written cases on Google, Charles Schwab, Daimler, AB InBev, Box, Stripe, Target, AngelList, 23andMe, C3.ai, Majid Al Futtaim, Tableau, PayPal, SurveyMonkey, Medium, Autodesk, Minted, Zuora, Axel Springer, and Michelin, amongst others. He is also a venture partner at Piva Capital and a general partner at XSeed Capital. He sits on the board of directors of Luum, Avochato, Findmine and Cluster. He led investments in Sparta Science, Zooz (acquired by PayU of Naspers), Hive, Lex Machina (acquired by LexisNexis of the RELX Group), CirroSecure (acquired by Palo Alto Networks), Nova Credit, The League (acquired by Match Group), Teapot (acquired by Stripe), Brewbird, Pixlee TurnTo (acquired by Emplifi), and SIPX (acquired by ProQuest). Robert is a member of the supervisory board of HERE Technologies, TTTech Auto AG, and is chairman of the strategic advisory board for TTTech Computertechnik AG in Vienna, Austria. He is a member of the industry advisory board for Tulco, and is the co-president emeritus of Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs, an alumni association that fosters relationships to strengthen the Stanford startup community. Robert was on the board of SmartDrive Systems for 14 years (acquired by Omnitracs), has coauthored several articles for the Harvard Business Review and California Management Review, and is a frequent contributor to Fortune, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and Forbes. Robert was previously general manager of the video and software solutions division for GE Security, with annual revenues of $350 million. He was also executive vice president of Pixim, Inc., a fabless semiconductor firm specializing in image sensors and processors (acquired by Sony). Before Pixim, Robert was cofounder & chief executive officer of Weave Innovations Inc. (acquired by Kodak), a network services developer that invented the world’s first digital picture frame, and delivered photos and other digital media to PCs and internet / mobile devices. Robert served in various management roles at Intel Corporation, including an executive position on their corporate business development team, in which he invested capital in startups that were strategically aligned with Intel’s vision. Robert is the co-inventor of four patents and served as lead researcher for Andy Grove’s best-selling book, Only the Paranoid Survive. Robert holds a BA from UC Berkeley and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is married with three grown children.
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