Brad Stein is Partner, Portfolio Operations & CFO at Merus Capital, bringing an unusually hands-on M&A integration background from his seven years at Google where he created the playbook for integrating major acquisitions like YouTube and Android. His experience spans both sides of acquisitions—as an operator at Applied Semantics when it was acquired by Google and later leading integration processes from inside Google—giving him a rare perspective that few venture investors possess. Brad Stein is Partner, Portfolio Operations & CFO at Merus Capital, bringing an unusually hands-on M&A integration background from his seven years at Google where he created the playbook for integrating major acquisitions like YouTube and Android. His experience spans both sides of acquisitions—as an operator at Applied Semantics when it was acquired by Google and later leading integration processes from inside Google—giving him a rare perspective that few venture investors possess.