Current Firm
Craft Ventures
Investments
7+ companies
Focus
Enterprise, Marketplace
About Lainy Painter
David Sacks is a South African-born venture investor at Craft Ventures who brings unusually deep operational experience as founding COO of PayPal and founder/CEO of Yammer (sold to Microsoft for $1.2B), which he draws on when coaching founders on scaling from product-market fit to large outcomes. He's known for formalizing the "Burn Multiple" metric for SaaS companies and co-hosting the All-In podcast, where he regularly shares his investing philosophy and startup playbooks in public, giving founders and investors clear visibility into his thinking on company building and capital efficiency.
Focus Areas
EnterpriseMarketplaceAIFintechSaaS
Investment Stage
Pre-Seed
Seed
Series A
Series B+
Notable Investments
Vanta
SpaceX
Meta
Cedar
ZocDoc
Sourcegraph
Pipe