Dan Scheinman is best known TODAY as the first investor in Zoom… A few months ago, not many of us knew Zoom. Today its parallel to Google and the circumstances have made Zoom a game changer during these incredibly difficult times.
People like Dan believed in its founders a long time ago, and his investment helped change the World.
Dan previously ran Corporate Development at Cisco, and then decided to become an active angel investor. Investing his own capital, he has backed successful companies from their earliest stages. These include Zoom, Arista, SentinelOne and CyCognito. These companies are now collectively worth tens of billions of dollars.
Dan continues to be an important mentor, advisor and member of the Board of Directors in many of these companies, which rely on his advice and mentorship.