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大衛·弗里德伯格

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維基百科，自由的百科全書
David Friedberg
大衛·弗里德伯格
2020
出生 (1980-06-01) 1980年6月1日（44歲）
 南非
公民權南非人、美國人
母校加州大學伯克利分校
職業企業家、商人、天使投資人

大衛·阿爾伯特·弗里德伯格（David Albert Friedberg；1980年6月1日—）是美國企業家、商人、天使投資人。[1]

創立了The Climate Corporation並擔任首席執行官，該公司於2013年以11億美元的價格出售給孟山都公司。[2][3]目前是The Production Board創始人兼首席執行官。是All-In播客的共同主持人。目前有32項專利。[4]

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Early life and education

Friedberg was born in 1980 in South Africa. At age six, Friedberg moved with his family to Los Angeles, California.[5] In high school, Friedberg was president of the environmental club 「Students H.O.P.E.」 (Students Healing Our Planet Earth).[6] At age 16, he entered Clarkson University, in Potsdam, New York, where he worked in a pool hall and learned to play poker.[7] After one year in upstate New York, he transferred to University of California, Berkeley, where he had a part-time job doing mathematical modeling at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and received a Bachelor's Degree in Astrophysics in 2001.[8]

Career

Google

After several years in investment banking and private equity, Friedberg joined Google in March 2004 as one of the first 1,000 employees and a founding member of Google’s Corporate Development group.[9] As Corporate Development and Business Product Manager, Friedberg helped run Google's online advertising platform, AdWords, and negotiated acquisitions and worked with Google co-founder Larry Page.[10]

The Climate Corporation

In 2006, he founded his first company, WeatherBill, to create and buy custom weather insurance online. Friedberg was still working at Google as a business product manager when the idea for the company came to him.[11] He was driving past the Bike Hut in San Francisco and seeing sales slump on rainy days.[12] The thought occurred to him that the impact of weather on a business must be a big problem.

WeatherBill secured funding from Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Google Ventures, NEA, Index Ventures and Atomico.[13] In 2011, Friedberg changed WeatherBill's name to The Climate Corporation.[14] The Climate Corporation focused on offering farmers weather insurance and the climate.com service to help them track, analyze, and make field-specific decisions on their farms to improve farming outcomes. On 5 October 2011, Friedberg gave his Entrepreneurship Gives Life Meaning lecture[15] at Stanford.

In October 2013, Monsanto announced that it was acquiring The Climate Corporation for about $1.1 billion.[16] Friedberg joined Monsanto's Executive Team after the acquisition and in 2016 shifted to an advisory role.[17]

The Production Board

In 2016, Friedberg began talking with Larry Page about a way to build and finance more startups focused on food, agriculture, decarbonization and life sciences.[18] Through parent company Alphabet, Page agreed to help finance a holding company that Friedberg would operate.[19] Friedberg founded The Production Board (TPB) in 2016.[20]

TPB works with scientists, entrepreneurs, and business experts with the objective of solving the biggest problems facing humanity, including climate change.[21] TPB portfolio businesses include Pattern Ag, Ohalo, Culture Biosciences, Triplebar Bio, Supergut and Cana.[18] In July 2021, Friedberg announced that The Production Board raised $300 million from Alphabet, Baillie Gifford, Allen & Co., BlackRock, Koch Disruptive Technologies and Morgan Stanley's Counterpoint Global.[18]

Boards of directors and other roles

Friedberg is the founder of Metromile and served as Chairman of Metromile's Board of Directors during its early years.[22] He is also an angel investor in various technology, food, agriculture, and life sciences startups. In 2014, he purchased Canadian quinoa supplier NorQuin, North America's largest supplier of quinoa.[23] In 2022, Above Food Corp. acquired Norquin[24] and appointed Friedberg to Above Food's Innovation Advisory Council.[25]

Personal life

Friedberg is one of the four co-hosts of All-In, a business and investment podcast with Chamath Palihapitiya, David O. Sacks, and Jason Calacanis.

Friedberg is a lifelong vegetarian.[6]

參考

  1. ^ David Friedberg | AgileList. Angel.co. [July 31, 2022]. （原始內容存檔於2022-12-20）. 
  2. ^ Burwood-Taylor, Louisa. Founder of Agtech's First Unicorn David Friedberg Reveals Investment Portfolio of The Production Board | Ag Funder News. AgFunder News. 21 February 2019 [September 11, 2022]. （原始內容存檔於2022-12-25）. 
  3. ^ Wolf, Michael. Talking 23andMe For Farms, Bioreactors-as-a-Service & Other Crazy FoodTech Ideas With Dave Friedberg. The Spoon. 24 June 2020 [September 11, 2022]. （原始內容存檔於2022-12-20）. 
  4. ^ Google Patents. patents.google.com. [2022-08-27]. （原始內容存檔於2022-12-20）. 
  5. ^ Anything Is Possible with Dave Friedberg | Where It Happens. YouTube. March 3, 2022 [July 31, 2022]. （原始內容存檔於2022-12-20）. 
  6. ^ 6.0 6.1 Specter, Michael. Why The Climate Corporation Sold Itself to Monsanto. The New Yorker. 3 November 2013 [August 1, 2022]. （原始內容存檔於2023-02-12）. 
  7. ^ Specter, Michael. Climate by Numbers. The New Yorker. 3 November 2013 [August 1, 2022]. （原始內容存檔於2023-02-06）. 
  8. ^ Vahradyan, Ani. David Friedberg: Astrophysics, Eatsa, and Everything In Between. Berkeley Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology. 22 February 2017 [July 31, 2022]. （原始內容存檔於2022-12-20）. 
  9. ^ Woody, Todd. WeatherBill raises $42 million. The New York Times. 28 February 2011 [September 11, 2022]. （原始內容存檔於2022-12-20）. 
  10. ^ Bunge, Jacob. Monsanto, Under Attack for GMOs, Has a New Defender | Wall Street Journal. The Wall Street Journal. 4 September 2014 [August 1, 2022]. （原始內容存檔於2022-12-20）. 
  11. ^ Martin, Bobby. The Hockey Stick Principles: The 4 Key Stages to Entrepreneurial Success. Flatiron Books. 2016-05-24: 131. ISBN 978-1-250-06638-1 （英語）. 
  12. ^ Gullickson, Gil. How Climate Corporation Built Big Weather Data. Successful Farming. 18 November 2013 [August 1, 2022]. （原始內容存檔於2022-12-20）. 
  13. ^ Arrington, Michael. WeatherBill Launches, Announces All Star Investors. TechCrunch. 15 January 2007 [August 1, 2022]. （原始內容存檔於2022-12-20）. 
  14. ^ Weatherbill changes company name to The Climate Corporation. Artemis. October 11, 2011 [August 1, 2022]. （原始內容存檔於2022-12-20）. 
  15. ^ Tucker, Patrick. The Naked Future: What Happens in a World That Anticipates Your Every Move?. Penguin. 2015-02-24: 80. ISBN 978-1-59184-770-0 （英語）. 
  16. ^ Tsotsis, Alexia. Monsanto Buys Weather Big Data Company Climate Corporation For Around $1.1B. TechCrunch. October 2, 2013 [July 31, 2022]. （原始內容存檔於2023-03-12）. 
  17. ^ Bunge, Jacob. Monsanto Executive David Friedberg Shifting to Advisory Role | Wall Street Journal. The Wall Street Journal. 23 March 2016 [August 1, 2022]. （原始內容存檔於2022-12-20）. 
  18. ^ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Levy, Ari. Early Google exec got Larry Page's backing to build a start-up factory focused on saving the planet | CNBC. CNBC. 20 July 2021 [August 1, 2022]. （原始內容存檔於2023-03-07）. 
  19. ^ David Friedberg's Alphabet-backed Production Board raised $300 million | Planet Concerns. Planet Concerns. July 30, 2021 [August 1, 2022]. （原始內容存檔於2022-12-20）. 
  20. ^ Crazy FoodTech Ideas With Dave Friedberg | The Spoon. The Spoon. June 24, 2020 [September 11, 2022]. （原始內容存檔於2022-12-20）. 
  21. ^ The Production Board's Dave Friedberg: "Technology will save the day - hopefully". Danny in the Valley. August 19, 2021 [August 1, 2022]. （原始內容存檔於2022-12-20）. 
  22. ^ SEC Form S-1 | SEC. SEC. July 30, 2021 [July 30, 2021]. （原始內容存檔於2021-04-17）. 
  23. ^ Little, Amanda. Quinoa is the new Big Mac. The New Yorker. 17 December 2016 [August 1, 2022]. （原始內容存檔於2022-12-20）. 
  24. ^ Danley, Sam. Above Food acquires quinoa supplier| Food Business News. Food Business News. 19 May 2022 [August 1, 2022]. （原始內容存檔於2022-12-22）. 
  25. ^ Above Food Appoints David Friedberg to Innovation Advisory Council| Yahoo.com. Yahoo.com. June 2, 2022 [August 1, 2022]. （原始內容存檔於2022-12-20）. 

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