Leo Polovets is a venture capital investor at Susa Ventures who was the second engineering hire at LinkedIn (joining when the company had ~12 people) and built early core products like Jobs and Groups before working on payments fraud at Google and big data infrastructure at Factual. He's known as the "Coding VC" for his engineering-style approach to venture capital, publishing detailed frameworks on his blog and systematically evaluating startups as "bundles of risks" that founders should de-risk rather than just chasing growth metrics. Leo Polovets is a venture capital investor at Susa Ventures who was the second engineering hire at LinkedIn (joining when the company had ~12 people) and built early core products like Jobs and Groups before working on payments fraud at Google and big data infrastructure at Factual. He's known as the "Coding VC" for his engineering-style approach to venture capital, publishing detailed frameworks on his blog and systematically evaluating startups as "bundles of risks" that founders should de-risk rather than just chasing growth metrics.