David Lieb is a Group Partner at YC. He was previously the co-founder and CEO of Bump (S09), a mobile app used by more than 150M people to share photos and contact info by bumping their phones together. Bump was acquired by Google in 2013, and an unreleased photo-sharing app they were building became the foundation of Google Photos. Before Bump, Dave was a researcher in the Stanford AI Lab and a software engineer at Texas Instruments. He holds EE/CS degrees from Princeton and Stanford and finished half an MBA at Chicago Booth before dropping out to start Bump.
YC stats
- Dave has done more than 500 office hours with YC companies over the course of three batches at YC.
- The companies he's worked with at YC, along with the YC companies he invested in as an angel investor, are worth more than $10B combined.
- He's advised top YC alumni including:
In the news
- The Social Radars: David Lieb, Creator of Google Photos
- Y Combinator: Getting to know YC's newest Group Partner, David Lieb
Videos
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On starting and scaling one of the biggest iOS apps
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How David Lieb Turned a Failing Startup Into Google Photos | Backstory
David Lieb: How I Founded Google Photos & Bump; Why I Left Google | 20VC
Google Photos Product Lead and Bump Cofounder David Lieb with Gustaf Alstromer
Twitter vs. X: Product Lessons For Startup Founders