Mark Nelson spent his career running product, engineering, and leadership teams at companies like Informix, Oracle, Concur, SAP, and Tableau, including the leadership teams behind two of Seattle's biggest software acquisitions, Concur-SAP and Tableau-Salesforce, and he backs that experience with deep technical roots in computational biophysics and database systems plus firsthand lessons from competing against giants like Microsoft. Today he invests almost entirely in data, analytics, and developer-focused companies—often founders he's worked with before at places like Tableau—while bringing distinct views on how AI changes what's hard in building software and why AI pricing models need to map to real customer value.