Antonio Rodriguez (entrepreneur)

Antonio Rodriguez is a serial entrepreneur[1] and venture capitalist.[2][3]

Antonio Rodriguez
Rodriguez, in Boston, 2013
Born
Venezuela
Alma mater
Occupation
  • entrepreneur
  • executive
  • venture capitalist
Websitean.ton.io

Early life and education

Rodriguez was born in Venezuela. At the age of nine, he learned to program on an Apple II.[4] He graduated with honors from Harvard University with an A.B. in Social Studies in 1996.[5] After working for two years (see below) he returned to university to complete an MBA at Stanford University Graduate School of Business over the period 1998 to 2000.[6]

Career

After a job with Boston Consulting Group,[4] he worked at Abuzz Technologies, a social Q&A site that was founded by his brother Andres and acquired by The New York Times in 1999.[7][8] In 2000, he founded a company, Memora, with his brother. The company built and sold a home server called Servio.[8] It closed in 2001 with the bursting of the dot-com bubble.[2] He moved to New York to join MyPublisher (now part of Shutterfly[9][10]) which manufactures photo books.[2] In 2005 he founded Tabblo, a photo storyboarding website and printing company, and was CEO.[11] It was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2007.[12][13] After the acquisition, he became CTO of HP's consumer printing group.[14][15]

He joined Matrix Partners as a general partner in 2010.[1][16] His investments there include Sold (acquired by Dropbox in 2013[17]), The Echo Nest in 2010[2] (acquired by Spotify in 2014), Oculus VR in 2013[18] (acquired by Facebook for about $2.3bn in 2014),[19][20][4] and Owl Labs in 2016.[21]

Corporate governance

Rodriguez holds a seat on the board of directors of Adelphic, Almond Systems, Care.com, Flatiron School, Intent Media, Markforged, Oculus VR, and Sqrrl.[4]

In academia

He was a judge in the 2012 MIT Auto-ID Labs Big Data Conference, run by the Industrial Liaison Program at MIT.[22] He was cited for his opinions on software development by Laseter et al. in a MIT Sloan Management Review.[23]

Personal life

Rodriguez is married with two sons.[24]

References
  1. Moore, Galen (2010-03-16). "Rodriguez joins Matrix Partners". Boston Business Journal. Retrieved 2015-04-23. Serial entrepreneur Antonio Rodriguez announced on his blog this morning that he will take a general partner position at Waltham venture capital firm Matrix Partners.
  2. Kirsner, Scott (2010-10-07). "VC Conversation: Antonio Rodriguez of Matrix Partners". Boston Globe. Retrieved 2015-04-23.
  3. Kirsner, Scott (2012-10-09). "Who are Boston's go-to venture capitalists?". Boston Globe. Retrieved 2015-04-23. Wild card: Antonio Rodriguez of Matrix Partners
  4. "Antonio Rodriguez". Matrix Partners. Retrieved 2015-04-23.
  5. Rodriguez, Antonio Luis (1996). 'Hecho Pa'lante' : an historical perspective of Eugenio Mendoza Goiticoa and the role of agency in Venezuelan development, 1920-1970. Dissertation: Harvard University. OCLC 77062538. Retrieved 2015-04-26.
  6. "Antonio Rodriguez". LinkedIn. Retrieved 2015-04-24.
  7. "New York Times Co. acquires Abuzz Technologies". Advertising Age. 1999-07-16. Retrieved 2015-04-24.
  8. Kirsner, Scott (2001-07-16). "Serve Yourself". The Boston Globe  – via HighBeam Research (subscription required) . Archived from the original on 2016-04-09. Retrieved 2015-04-23. Andres and Antonio Rodriguez are already living in a better world than you or me. Archived copy
  9. "Shutterfly Inc. Acquires MyPublisher". businesswire.com (Press release). 2013-04-30. Retrieved 2015-04-24.
  10. Roberts, Lindsey M. (2014-08-13). "Here are the best photo books for all those pictures languishing in your computer (and phone)". Washington Post. Retrieved 2015-04-24. Though the software takes some getting used to, fans swear that the quality of the finished product by MyPublisher (a company owned by Shutterfly) is better than others.
  11. Walker, Leslie (2006-07-06). "A Clearer Picture of You". Washington Post. Retrieved 2015-04-23. "We are making a big and bold bet that personal content is not about eyeballs that can be sold in quite the same way news and stock quotes are," said founder and chief executive Antonio Rodriguez.
  12. Rosmarin, Rachel (2007-03-22). "HP Gets Artsy". Forbes. Retrieved 2015-04-23. HP announced on Thursday that it bought Web 2.0 start-up Tabblo for an undisclosed sum.
  13. Malik, Om (2007-03-22). "HP goes web 2.0, buys Tabblo". Gigaom. Retrieved 2015-04-23. It was only in May 2006, I was introduced to Tabblo founder Antonio Rodriguez by Jason Shellen,
  14. MacManus, Richard (2007-11-07). "How a Startup Inspired HP's Print 2.0 Strategy". ReadWriteWeb. Retrieved 2015-04-23. HP's Antonio Rodriguez - formerly of startup Tabblo, now Director of Research and Development for HP 's embedded web-to-print group.
  15. Rodriguez, Antonio. "About me". Bio at personal web site 'The Grain'. Retrieved 2015-04-24.
  16. Kirsner, Scott (2011-06-08). "Matrix Partners opening a branch office in Kendall Square this summer". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2015-04-23. The Matrix Kendall Square Project is being spearheaded by partners David Skok and Antonio Rodriguez...
  17. "The Sold team has joined Dropbox!". 2013-11-05. Archived from the original on 2013-11-05. Retrieved 2015-04-26. We also want to thank our advisors and investors ... Antonio Rodriguez...
  18. Griffith, Erin (2013-06-13). "Matrix Partners' Antonio Rodriguez on his investment in Oculus Rift". PandoDaily. Retrieved 2015-04-23. I spoke with Antonio Rodriguez, who led the deal for Matrix.
  19. Alspach, Kyle (2014-03-25). "Matrix Partners extends winning streak with huge Oculus sale to Facebook". Beta Boston. Retrieved 2015-04-23. 2014 is shaping up to be one of its best years yet, says general partner Antonio Rodriguez
  20. Griffith, Erin (2014-03-25). "Facebook buys Oculus VR, a virtual reality gaming company, for $2 billion". Fortune. Retrieved 2015-04-23. Antonio Rodriguez, an investor with Matrix Partners (and early investor in Oculus Rift),
  21. Martin, Dylan (2016-08-17). "Two iRobot Vets Have Raised $5M for Their Video Conferencing Startup, Owl Labs". BostInno. Retrieved 2017-06-22.
  22. "2012 MIT Auto-ID Labs Big Data Conference". Industrial Liaison Program, MIT. 2012-10-09. Retrieved 2015-04-23. Startup Challenge - Finalist Presentations to Judges
  23. Timothy M. Laseter; Elliot Rabinovich; Kenneth K. Boyer; M. Johnny Rungtusanatham (2007-04-01). "3 Critical Issues in Internet Retailing". MIT Sloan Management Review. Retrieved 2015-04-23. There’s been a sea change in how you develop software, particularly in the consumer Internet. Cycles are now measured in ten days ... or even shorter; ...
  24. Moore, Galen (2010-08-02). "Executive Profile: The Tinkerer: At home and at work, tech ideas are tested". Boston Business Journal. Retrieved 2015-04-23. Rodriguez and his two sons...
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