Vivek Patel spent over two decades building product before becoming a venture investor, rising to CPO at Yelp and later leading core product at Tinder, with a specialty in recommendation systems and AI-driven personalization; at Yelp he grew advertising revenue from roughly $25 million to nearly $1 billion while building transaction products like self-serve ads, Request-A-Quote, Reservations, Waitlist, and the Grubhub integration, drawing on a personal background working alongside family in the restaurant and small-business world. He combines a Stanford Computer Science degree with a master's in Education, Learning, Design & Technology, started his career as a founding product manager and first hired employee at SugarSync, co-founded Bluelark Systems, and is known as a product leader who stays out of the spotlight despite this track record.