Greg Gottesman is a Managing Director and Co-Founder of PSL. Prior to PSL, Greg served as one of the three initial Managing Directors of Madrona Venture Group, where he worked for 20 years.

Greg represents PSL on the boards of Boundless, Ever.green, Gumshoe, Joon, Kevala, and SingleFile. He manages PSL’s investments in Arrived, Dropzone, Maximal Learning, Mudstack, Overland, Read AI, Shipium, and Valent.

Greg was also the co-founder, former CEO, and longtime board member of Rover (NASDAQ: ROVR), which was sold to Blackstone for $2.3 billion.

“Venture is about finding truly great entrepreneurs and supporting their efforts in every way possible. The rest is noise.”

Extracurricular‍

Greg serves as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Washington Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering and the Foster School of Business, where he has taught entrepreneurship for the past 25 years. Greg is also the author of three books.

When not working, Greg regularly injures himself playing non-contact sports and reportedly owns the meanest ping-pong backhand this side of PSL. 

“I think the most important characteristic of a founder is self-awareness. If you know where you’re strong and where you’re weak, you can put together a team that fills holes for you. That’s incredibly important.”
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Education

Greg graduated Phi Beta Kappa with honors and distinction from Stanford University, with honors and distinction from the Harvard Business School, and with honors from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.