Pat Connolly spent nearly four decades at Williams-Sonoma, where he helped take the company public and served on its board for 33 years while overseeing growth from roughly $4 million to over $5 billion in revenue, bringing unusually deep public-company and board experience to early-stage venture investing. He personally created and launched the ROBIN sleep brand while at Williams-Sonoma, giving him direct operator experience building a sleep-focused consumer offering before founding a sleep-only VC fund. Pat Connolly spent nearly four decades at Williams-Sonoma, where he helped take the company public and served on its board for 33 years while overseeing growth from roughly $4 million to over $5 billion in revenue, bringing unusually deep public-company and board experience to early-stage venture investing. He personally created and launched the ROBIN sleep brand while at Williams-Sonoma, giving him direct operator experience building a sleep-focused consumer offering before founding a sleep-only VC fund.