Role
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Expertise
John Vrionis is the Co-founder and Managing Partner at Unusual, where he backs extraordinary founders at the earliest stages. Over the past two decades, he’s invested in category-defining companies like AppDynamics, Arctic Wolf Networks, Carta, Harness, Hallow, Liftoff.io, Mulesoft, Pinterest, Nicira, Nimble Storage, and Robinhood. He also shares his experience with the next generation of entrepreneurs on product-market fit as a faculty member at The Stanford Graduate School of Business. Drawn to the grit and ambition of startup founders, John moved to Silicon Valley in the 2000s, spending a decade as a General Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners before co-founding Unusual. He holds degrees from Harvard University, the University of Chicago, and Stanford University, and lives in Menlo Park.
Origins
Hometown
Georgia
Alma mater
Harvard University — AB, Economics
The University of Chicago — MS, Computer Science
The Stanford Graduate School of Business — MBA, General Management
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Past Employment
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