Beginning in door-to-door sales in high school, David has learned to build businesses one deal at a time. One sales pitch led to a full-time job at McCaw Cellular, now AT&T. In the mid-1990's at Morgan Stanley he helped finance the buildout of nationwide mobile networks working with what is now T-Mobile and Verizon, and later researching the emerging Mobile Internet.

After receiving a stern reprimand in After being told in 1995 by his employer Morgan Stanley that email would never be used for business, David jumped at the chance to join Netscape where he learned from some great leaders and managers. After pitching in on strategy, he led the Directory & Security division that offered among the first commercial products supporting Linux and open source. Later David led AOL's Communications, Community & Instant Messaging product divisions as they surpassed 50MM users worldwide. David then joined Tellme Networks as SVP Marketing & Business Development. Using a quantitative framework called Rifle, his team helped grow the company's revenue beyond $100M in revenue and to profitability. Microsoft subsequently acquired Tellme.

David's investment focus includes Internet software, digital media, services and communications. A number of David's investments have been significant acquisitions or had IPOs including Bitfone (HPQ), Good Technology (MOT), Ingenio (T), LogMeIn (LOGM), Opsware (HPQ), and Tellme (MSFT), and he has been recognized as one of the top investors under 40 and by Forbes.

David grew up in Seattle and graduated from Harvard magna cum laude with highest honors in the special major Organizational Behavior and Economics, with additional coursework at MIT and NYU in engineering. He lives with his family in Portola Valley, California and can be reached at dw@khoslaventures.com.