About

Jeff Grimes is a Sequoia Capital Scout with extensive experience in product management and early-stage investing. He has been responsible for monetizing the Discover feed at Google and has led teams and projects in advertiser buy-side product, asset/creative quality optimization, automated content policy reviews based on ML models, UX formats, ad labeling, video ads, and ad frequency. He has also worked on analysis-intensive launches for google.com Search Ads team, such as changing the maximum number of text ads at the top of the search results page from 3 to 4 and changing the ad label color from yellow to green. Jeff is an early-stage investor through Sequoia Capital's Scout program, and he has made 18 investments totaling ~$500K. His deals range from the first check on pre-seed SAFE to large priced seed rounds. He is an active advisor to companies and has made 14 investments since 2016. Jeff is an iOS developer of four apps on App Store totaling 430,000 total downloads. He holds dual degrees from UPenn's Management & Technology (M&T) program: BS Computer Science from Engineering School, BS Economics & Entrepreneurial Management from Wharton. Jeff's technical skills include product management, Search, iOS, ML, and Research Scientist. He has relevant experience of 8.36 years. He was selected for the Associate Product Manager (APM) program at Google, a two-year program for new grads with a combination of technical and business skills. Jeff was also selected for the 2020-2022 APM Steering Committee, a group of five APM program alumni who each coach eight first-year and second-year APMs and make executive decisions for the future of the program. Jeff has a career trajectory of Associate Product Manager (2015), Product Manager I (2017), Product Manager II (2019), Senior Product Manager (2020), and Group Product Manager (2022).