Dave Girouard
Founder & CEO at Upstart
Upstart, A Site For Crowdfunding People, Raises $5.9M From First Round, Eric Schmidt, And Others
A year ago, Dave Girouard left his position as the president of Google Enterprise to start a new company, Upstart, that allows users (mostly recent college graduates) to raise money for the pursuit of entrepreneurial goals — they pay their lenders back with a percentage of their income. ... Read more »
Ex-Google exec brings Kickstarter model to careers of new grads
FORTUNE -- In his 8 years at Google, where he was president of the company's enterprise business, Dave Girouard hired new college grads in droves. While the Google gigs might have made their classmates envious, it turns out that many of them would have forged different, more independent ... Read more »
Former Google Executive Dave Girouard Launches Crowdfunding Service Upstart, Raises $1.75M
Dave Girouard, the former president of Google Enterprise, has struck out on his own with a new startup called Upstart, which offers crowdfunding and mentorship tools to help college graduates pursue, in his words, “a more entrepreneurial path.” Girouard argues that there’s ... Read more »
Google Apps VP Quits Job to Start Upstart
Dave Girouard, Vice President of Product Management (Google Apps), has resigned from his post. He is leaving Google behind to start his own company name UpStart. Girouard has been working at Google since past 8 years. He is widely known for developing Google Docs, which is ... Read more »
Ex-Googler Dave Girouard gets his kicks jumpstarting startups
Upstart, says founder Dave Girouard (formerly president of Google Enterprise) will match college grads with patrons who will help fund their startups and provide advice. It’s an old story. College seniors head toward graduation, many with dreams to start their own businesses. Then... Read more »
THE GOOGLE INVESTOR: MAR 20
Dave Girouard, Google’s VP of apps, is leaving the company. Girouard had been responsible for Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and other cloud applications. After eight years at the company, Girouard plans to start his own. The start-up is called Upstart, and it lets you ... Read more »
THE GOOGLE INVESTOR: MAR 20
Dave Girouard, Google’s VP of apps, is leaving the company. Girouard had been responsible for Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and other cloud applications. After eight years at the company, Girouard plans to start his own. The start-up is called Upstart, and it lets you ... Read more »
Google cancels Picnik and closes a few other businesses
Google vice president of product management Dave Girouard said in a blog post that the latest round of cuts comes as the company works to build better services into the company's user experience. "That means taking a hard look at products that replicate other features, haven't achieved ... Read more »
Upstart Combines Crowdfunding with College Loans
Founded by Google ‘s former head of enterprise, Dave Girouard, Upstart is the latest initiative aimed at getting young people to strike out on their own before the responsibilities that come with a family and a mortgage set in. “They’re at a good time in their lives to take risks,” ... Read more »
Upstart is Crowd Funding for Dreamers
Somewhere between Kickstarter, micro loan non-profit Kiva, traditional bank loans, and venture capital sits Upstart, a lending service for college graduates started by ex-googler Dave Girouard. Think of it as the money you might get from an indulgent relative, but you have to pay it ... Read more »
Google’s President of Enterprise Dave Girouard leaves to launch Upstart
Leaving Google behind, Dave Girouard is leaving to launch his own startup, backed by Kleiner Perkins, NEA, and Google Ventures. The company is called Upstart, which lets “you raise capital in return for a small portion of your future income,” according to the company’s website. Upstart ... Read more »
No Picnik: Photo-editing site's users blast Google
" A Google spokesman declined to comment, referring instead to a blog post announcing the closure by its vice president of product management, Dave Girouard. In it, Girouard wrote that Google intends to integrate various features of the services it's shutting down into "the ... Read more »
Q&A: Upstart CEO Dave Girouard
Dave Girouard has had quite the career change. He used to lead Google's enterprise efforts. Today, he's cooking up funding models and connecting college students with financial backers as CEO of Upstart. Upstart's model includes a mix of crowd funding, a dash of Kickstarter meets ... Read more »
Upstart.com aims to be a Kickstarter for college grads
When Dave Girouard worked at Google, he noticed a pattern. He met a lot of young people early in their careers taking the conservative route -- choosing a stable job in a big company instead of following their dreams, taking risks, and striking out on their own. So Girouard, Anna Mongayt ... Read more »
Upstart service aims to let new grads raise money online to fund their dreams
Founded by former Google executive Dave Girouard, the website lets graduates raise money from online “backers” who want to invest in their potential. Grads can then use the money — typically between $25,000 and $50,000 — to pay down debt, pursue potentially risky goals like building a ... Read more »
Former Google Exec Dave Girouard Starts a ‘Kickstarter for Young People’
Last year Dave Girouard — at the time a big-time executive at Google in charge of Google Apps — got obsessed with an idea. Highly qualified young college graduates were settling for corporate jobs when what they really wanted to do was be entrepreneurial. But unless these kids were lucky ... Read more »
Young entrepreneur crowdfunding site Upstart expands to Boston area universities
Boston Business Journal by Kyle Alspach, VC Editor Upstart, an entrepreneur crowdfunding site led by founder and CEO Dave Girouard, is now open to students of five Boston area universities. Upstart, a Silicon Valley startup led by Massachusetts native and former Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) ... Read more »
The Next Thing to Invest In? College Graduates
Former Google executive Dave Girouard says he kept finding himself in these conversations, listening to students sell themselves to large corporations. When asked, “But, why?” They’d respond, “The other world is unknown; it’s risky, and I have a lot of student loans to pay off.” Tired of ... Read more »
Ex-Google executive unveils Upstart, a crowd-funding startup
Dave Girouard ran Google’s cloud software group for eight years, leading the Internet giant’s effort to sell companies and government agencies on using Google Docs and other online programs instead of traditional office software from Microsoft. Since leaving Google in March... Read more »
Ex-Google exec's new venture helps students avoid corporate life
"There's this overwhelming desire to not follow the traditional path of bolting yourself to a desk and climbing the corporate ladder," said Upstart founder Dave Girouard. But he said too many graduating students have college loans they need to repay and do not feel they can take a ... Read more »
