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Timothy Sheehan On Raising $300 Million To Help You Raise Financially Smart Kids

December 10, 2020
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Timothy Sheehan is the cofounder and CEO of Greenlight which is a developer of a smart debit card used to help parents monitor their child's spending habits. The company has raised $300 million from top tier investors including NEA, Social Capital, Service Provider Capital, Relay Ventures, DST Global, and TTV Capital to name a few.

In this episode you will learn:

Learnings from Paul Allen, cofounder of Microsoft
How Greenlight is helping parents and their kids
The 3 musts for a successful startup
How he dove into the problem before launching this startup idea




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About Timothy Sheehan:


Timothy Sheehan has always worked at the edge of technology and finance. Early on he ran product development and ultimately co-led Yahoo! Finance, the award-winning consumer site for financial information. Following that stint, he was tapped to be SVP & General Manager at Yodlee, the financial account aggregation engine that partnered with most leading financial institutions in the early 2000's. Later on, Timothy Sheehan served as SVP of Products, Marketing & Strategy for Fiserv, the institutional financial services conglomerate, for their Biller Solutions Group.

But Timothy Sheehan had the entrepreneurial bug from the get-go. In 2005 he co-founded Attributor, an online technology for protecting content owners from digital piracy, and served the company as VP Products until its successful acquisition by Digimarc. Then Timothy Sheehan started a company aimed at helping sales professional network their way into connecting with sales prospects. That company, Reachable, now has a social graph in excess of 100 billion connections.

And then, after being entrepreneur-in-residence at Georgia Tech's Advanced Technology Development Center for all of a month, Timothy Sheehan co-founded Greenlight along with Johnson and John.

 



Connect with Timothy Sheehan:

* Linkedin
* Crunchbase