Ben Yoskovitz is a Founding Partner at Highline Beta, a hybrid venture studio and venture capital firm working with large companies to help them grow through internal and external innovation. He has 25+ years in the tech space as a founder, product manager and angel investor. In 2010 he co-founded Year One Labs, an early stage accelerator that put founders through a Lean Startup methodology. One of those investments, Localmind, was acquired by Airbnb. Subsequently, Ben co-authored Lean Analytics, a book to help startups use data more effectively. He’s made seventeen personal angel investments, and now invests through the Highline Beta Fund, which focuses on pre-seed/seed stage companies. Ben has also been VP Product at VarageSale and GoInstant (which was acquired by Salesforce.)