General Partner at Enjoy the Work

I was talking to a VC recently who just raised a $20 million fund all focused on generative AI and I said, “What are you looking at?” And one of the first things they led with was “We’re looking for companies that have access to unique data.” It’s becoming a core part of their investment theses.

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Ruben Ortega is a technologist and leader who has previously worked with Amazon, Google, Nordstrom, and Pinterest. He has built technologies and products that have scaled to millions of transactions per day, and generated billions of dollars in revenue per year. He established Amazon’s first engineering office in Palo Alto, Google’s Seattle office, and Pinterest’s first engineering office in Seattle. He is currently mentoring startup founders as a General Partner at Enjoy The Work.

LISA: Give us a brief summary of your career up to now.

RUBEN: I graduated from...