Jeremy Liew
Bio
Jeremy Liew is a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. Prior to joining Lightspeed in 2006 Jeremy was SVP of Corporate Development and Chief of Staff to the CEO at AOL. Jeremy managed the Netscape portal and browser division at AOL. He joined AOL from InterActiveCorp (originally USA Networks) where he was VP of Strategic Planning. While there he was responsible for acquisitions and investments in TV networks, consumer internet companies and online travel companies. Jeremy started working in the consumer internet industry as an early employee of CitySearch in 1996 where he held a variety of sales management, operational and business development roles. He was also a management consultant at McKinsey & Company.
Jeremy holds an MBA from Stanford and a BA/BSc(Hons) from the Australian National University in Linguistics and Pure Mathematics.
Work History
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March 2006 - present
Venture Capitalist, focused on early stage technology companies with an emphasis on software. gaming and internet. Led Lightspeed's investments in Rockyou, Flixster, Mercantila, Streetfire.net and Tippit.
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January 2004 - November 2005
Overall P&L Responsibility for Netscape. Netscape is the #4 portal and #3 browser.
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October 2002 - December 2003
Chief of Staff role to CEO. Strategy, business development, Corporate Development
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June 1999 - October 2002
Strategic Planning, Mergers, Acquisitions, Investments. Involved in acquisitions of or investments in Expedia, Interval, TV Travel Shop, and National Leisure Group, plus many others that did not come to fruition,
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March 1996 - June 1998
Various roles in startup online city guide business, including sales management, business development, finance raising etc
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