David Bohnett co-founded GeoCities and sold it to Yahoo in a multibillion-dollar deal, giving him a founder-operator perspective that he now applies as an investor at Baroda Ventures, which he built as a family office meets early-stage VC using capital from that exit. He tightly integrates his venture investing with his philanthropy through the David Bohnett Foundation, explicitly looking for technology and teams that can create positive societal impact while maintaining a historically informed view of online communities that contrasts the grassroots ethos of early GeoCities with today's social web. David Bohnett co-founded GeoCities and sold it to Yahoo in a multibillion-dollar deal, giving him a founder-operator perspective that he now applies as an investor at Baroda Ventures, which he built as a family office meets early-stage VC using capital from that exit. He tightly integrates his venture investing with his philanthropy through the David Bohnett Foundation, explicitly looking for technology and teams that can create positive societal impact while maintaining a historically informed view of online communities that contrasts the grassroots ethos of early GeoCities with today's social web.