Date: Nov 2021

Time Saved: 44 mins

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Podcast

ETL - YES but selective on episodes, can get kinda long and long winded on reactions to tech news

Episode - YES

Interviewee

Jeff Epstein is an Operating Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners and a Lecturer at Stanford University. He specializes in B2B Software, Marketplaces and Vertical AI.



He serves on the Boards of Directors of Twilio, Okta, Kaiser Permanente and other companies. He served on the Board of Priceline/Booking Holdings for 16 years, as it grew from $1 billion to $80 billion in market value.



He is the former Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Oracle, one of the world’s largest and most profitable technology companies, with a market value of over $150 billion.



Prior to joining Oracle, Jeff served as Chief Financial Officer of several public and private companies, including DoubleClick (sold to Google), King World Productions (sold to CBS) and Nielsen’s Media Measurement and Information Group. Earlier in his career, he was an investment banker at The First Boston Corporation.



He holds an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar, and a BA from Yale College, where he graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa.