Today, I'm building Digits, the first AI-native accounting platform.
In 2020, Jeff Orlowski, Tristan Harris, and I created
The Social Dilemma.
Over 100M+ people watched it on
Netflix.
In 2015, I was named Head of Consumer Product at Twitter.
In 2011, Wayne Chang and I launched Crashlytics. It now runs on over 6 Billion monthly active smartphones.
“The future is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed.”
I’ve been hesitant to write what I’ve experienced over the past 45 days because it continues to evolve so quickly I fear anything I share will instantly become obsolete. But a post has gone viral on Twitter, spawning endless discussion, dissection, and even mockery. Yes, something big is happening. Let me be less bombastic, more direct, and help put this moment in context.
The Social Dilemma, a years-long passion project from Jeff Orlowski and the Exposure Labs team, just premiered on Netflix this past week, and to my amazement and delight it has quickly jumped onto the Top 10 list this weekend.
The film masterfully intermixes drama with sit-down interviews with myself and a dozen other former social media execs, in hopes of communicating the (often subconscious) consequences of the world’s growing dependence on social media for news and entertainment.
I've started 3 VC-backed companies and sold two — Increo (acquired by Box in 2009) and Crashlytics (acquired by Twitter in 2013) — I've invested in 95+ startups, and I'm lucky to personally advise some incredible, passionate founders.
From speaking about data privacy, startups, M&A, and fundraising, to deeply technical topics like high-scale message queueing and continuous deployment, I've appeared in Netflix documentaries, lectured at Stanford, Harvard, and MIT, and keynoted conferences such as Twitter Flight (x2), AppsWorld (x2), AnDevCon, and EclipseCon.
Netflix: The Social Dilemma
Stanford ETL - On M&A
Twitter Flight 2015 - Keynote
Twitter Flight 2014 - Keynote
Draper University - Startup Journey
SVB CEO Summit - Lessons Learned
I love documentary film and am honored to be involved in a number of landmark projects in partnership with Jeff Orlowski's Exposure Labs. Check out Emmy Award-winning and Oscar-nominated Chasing Ice (2014), Netflix-acquired Chasing Coral (2017), and Frame by Frame (2015).
Outside of tech, my passion is wine. I'm a certified French Wine Scholar (thanks to David Glancy's SF Wine School) and I run Wine+Tech, a San Francisco-based event series that introduces startup founders and investors to incredible winemakers.
Since 2011, I've had the pleaseure of hosting the likes of Andy Erickson (Favia), Guillaume Fabre (Clos Solène), Hardy Wallace (Extradimensional), and countless others as we build bridges between the Silicon Valley tech scene and nearby wine country.
Jeff Seibert is the founder and CEO of Digits, the world's first AI-native accounting platform.
He previously served as Twitter's Head of Consumer Product, and starred in the Emmy Award-winning Netflix documentary The Social Dilemma.
Jeff was co-founder and CEO of the mobile performance analytics platform Crashlytics, which was acquired by Twitter in 2013. Now owned by Google, Crashlytics runs on over 6 Billion monthly-active smartphones and is the market-leading crash reporter for both iOS and Android.
In 2007, he co-founded Increo and served as COO until its acquisition by Box in 2009. At Box, he was the Engineering Manager for Desktop Sync and Mobile.
Seibert gained experience at Apple in Mac OS engineering, while serving as the Campus Rep for Stanford, and led Stanford University's Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders seminar series as Co-Coordinator. He was selected as a Mayfield Fellow in 2007 and received a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2008.
Seibert is a frequent presenter on both entrepreneurial and technical topics and has lectured at Stanford, Harvard, MIT, and Tufts, as well as keynoted Scaling New Heights, Twitter Flight, AppsWorld, AnDevCon, EclipseCon, and others.
