[gkoberger]

What do you mean? He started a company (Milk) that was bought as an acquihire. He worked at Google Ventures while he vested (and it was probably a good job while he got married, etc), but after a few years wanted to get back out there and build. He spent a few months transitioning out of GV (he had invested in a lot of companies; he couldn't just walk away), and now he's working full time on North.

I'm sure there's a lot we don't know, but it seems pretty straightforward.

[jforman]

Being a VC is a very attractive role to many people if you can make it work. You get to work with top-tier companies in a meaningful way and have the chance to make an incredible amount of money in the process (you participate both in fund upside and separately from additional upside in your portfolio companies), all for a much lower amount of stress than being an actual founder.

It's entirely possible that he wanted his GV role to continue but he did not succeed there. It's also possible that the cover story is true. We will likely never know.

[k-mcgrady]

There's a huge portion of that story missing if you leave out Digg.

[nether]

Not to mention Leah.

[unreal37]

What you've outlined is what's on his bio, which is interesting sure. But I am willing to bet that there is a much more interesting backstory to this. Nothing bad per se, but perhaps he will one day tell a story of how Silicon Valley burned him a couple of times and left him pessimistic about how much one can really disrupt entire industries.

He is basically trying to find a little niche to mine for a small win, not change the world. That's so fascinating to me.