Builder, Backer, Advisor: Gokul Rajaram on All Three Sides of the Table

Great products aren't pitched. They're tried. Gokul Rajaram grew Google AdSense from 0 to $1b+ in revenue. He then led ads product at Facebook as revenue went from $750m to $6.5b. Since then he's written more than 300 angel checks — Figma, Airtable, Coinbase, Vercel, Postman, Faire, Rubrik — and in 2025 launched Marathon Management Partners, a fund built around founders whose company is their life's work. He sits on the boards of Pinterest, Coinbase, The Trade Desk, AtlasCard, and CoinTracker. Why founders should be in the room: Gokul evaluates companies the way he built them — through product. Not TAM slides, not narrative. He wants to know whether you've talked to a customer this week, whether you can explain why everyone before you failed, and whether a stranger can sign up and get value in under ten minutes. That's the same bar he applied to the products he built and the same bar he applies to the 300+ he's backed. If you're building right now, this is an hour of hearing exactly how the person on the other side of the table is scoring you. Gokul Rajaram joins Nami Baral, CEO and Co-Founder of Niural AI, for a candid conversation on product-led investing, building with small fast teams, and playing the long game. Drinks and apps and a drawing for 3 Meta Glasses. You must be present to win! Schedule: 5:00PM — Arrival Drinks & Networking 5:30PM — Fireside Chat with Gokul Rajaram 6:30PM — Networking Reception: apps & drinks 6:45PM — Meta glasses drawing This event is a part of #SFTechWeek—a week of events hosted by VCs and startups to bring together the tech ecosystem. Learn more at www.tech-week.com.

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