Saad Siddiqui came to venture investing after years in corporate development and M&A, where he worked on billions of dollars in deals, and that background shows in his focus on messy, operationally complex enterprise areas like background checks, phishing detection, data wrangling, and logistics, as well as his habit of using founder data like job history and product traction alongside his own judgment when deciding what to invest in. Outside of investing, he mentors college students on careers and first jobs and has received the President's Volunteer Service Award from Obama.