Alfred Lin

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Alfred Lin is an American venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital. Lin is COO, CFO, and Chairman of Zappos.com until 2010.

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Lin holds the B.A. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard and M.S. in Statistics from Stanford. While at Harvard, Lin meets Tony Hsieh, future CEO of Zappos. Hsieh first recognized Lin's business acumen while running a student-owned pizza room at Harvard. Lin, his best customer, buys whole pizza, divides it into wedges, and sells it for profit. In 1996, Lin quit the Ph.D. program at Stanford to join Hsieh at LinkExchange as CFO. 18 months later, LinkExchange was sold to Microsoft for $ 265 million. Then, before joining Zappos, Lin was VP of Business Development and Learning Tellme Networks (MSFT). Along with Tony Hsieh he also founded Venture Frogs, an incubator and investment company. Venture Frogs invests in various technology and internet startups, including Ask Jeeves, OpenTable, Tellme Networks, and Zappos.

From 2005 to 2010 Lin is an integral part of Zappos, taking on the role of Chairman, COO, and CFO. In Zappos Lin is "No. 2 in command", is responsible for all financial operations, administration, and warehouse. He is also responsible for the growth and scaling of the company, bringing the company to a profitable first year in 2006 and the company's Amazon.com acquisition in 2009 of $ 1.2 billion. According to TechCrunch , "Hsieh earns at least $ 214 million; Lin earns at least $ 18 million, with Venture Frogs shares scoring an additional $ 163 million."

Lin left Zappos in 2010 to join Sequoia Capital venture capital firm as a partner.

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TechCrunch has stated that Alfred has a "Midas touch", because "every company he works has earned, and the smallest deal is $ 265 million." The $ 265 million deal took place at LinkExchange, which was sold to Microsoft for $ 265M when he became Vice President of Finance and Administration and was the first company he ever participated in. Lin then helped Tellme Networks sold to Microsoft for $ 800 million. After that, Lin helped from Zappos to then be acquired by Amazon for $ 1.2 billion. Lin has invested in Airbnb, Achievers, Stella & amp; Dot, Houzz, Humble Bundle, Kiwi, Romotive, Moovit, Styleseat, Uber, and Cardpool (acquired by Blackhawk Networks), AppBistro/MMTG Labs (acquired by InMobi), and SalesCrunch (acquired by ClearSlide) He specializes in consumer internet, and cellular companies.

Influence

In 2013, named Lin as one of "The 30 Most Influential People in Technology." Lin and his work have been profiled in national publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Harvard Business Review, CNBC , Forbes, BusinessWeek, and Fortune Magazine.