Justin Overdorff

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Mr. Justin Overdorff serves as a Partner at Lightspeed Management Company. He served as a Board Member at Vestwell. He served as an Advisor at Astra. He brings deep conviction to partnering with those who are building new products that create entirely new markets. His strategic thinking, founder-first lens, tenacity, and willingness to ask difficult questions bridge what is often a gap between the product development and go-to-market sides of a company. As a business development executive at Stripe, he catalyzed some of the company's most impressive partnerships, including WooCommerce, Xero, Amazon, and Facebook. His experience at Stripe stoked his passion for Fintech and the constraints of creative problem-solving in a regulated industry. His product-first strategic thinking helped him lead a small team that incubated Stripe Capital from what began as an internal memo to the initial product launch. In his final tour of duty at Stripe, he deployed balance sheet capital for acquisitions and investments in technology companies, which brought him closer to the early-stage investing world. After Stripe, he began investing his own time and money into seed-stage startups, such as Lithic, Alloy, Orum, Moov, Stir, and Puzzle. He brings a unique combination of skills to founders. He specializes in taking on the big hairy problems no one else is willing to tackle. He has the rare ability to understand technical and regulatory constraints early, and help identify and fill gaps - this can be everything from helping with customer positioning, all the way to problem discovery and helping find and close key early hires. He also served as Head, of Mobile Business Development at Yelp. He earned his bachelor's degree from The College of William and Mary and his MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.