Adam Freed is a Managing Partner at GSV Ventures who brings an unusually deep operator perspective to edtech investing, having served as CEO of Teachers Pay Teachers, COO of Etsy, and a global operations leader at Google before becoming a venture investor. He speaks 11 languages and positions himself as a "third-career" leader, which helps him relate to international founders, while also co-building the ASU+GSV Summit platform where he moderates conversations with global education leaders to surface emerging themes and founders for GSV. Adam Freed is a Managing Partner at GSV Ventures who brings an unusually deep operator perspective to edtech investing, having served as CEO of Teachers Pay Teachers, COO of Etsy, and a global operations leader at Google before becoming a venture investor. He speaks 11 languages and positions himself as a "third-career" leader, which helps him relate to international founders, while also co-building the ASU+GSV Summit platform where he moderates conversations with global education leaders to surface emerging themes and founders for GSV.