Katie Jacobs Stanton brings an unusually broad operating background spanning the White House, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, and Color Genomics, giving her a cross-sector lens across government, consumer internet, media, and genomics that she applies when working with founders. She explicitly uses "don't be a jerk" as an investment filter, making kindness and integrity hard requirements rather than nice-to-haves when choosing where to spend her time and capital. Katie Jacobs Stanton brings an unusually broad operating background spanning the White House, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, and Color Genomics, giving her a cross-sector lens across government, consumer internet, media, and genomics that she applies when working with founders. She explicitly uses "don't be a jerk" as an investment filter, making kindness and integrity hard requirements rather than nice-to-haves when choosing where to spend her time and capital.