Scott Friend is a former founder who built and sold a retail analytics company to Oracle before becoming a venture investor at Bain Capital Ventures, where he specializes in commerce and retail technology rather than investing broadly across tech sectors. He's known for making large, early bets on commerce companies when they're still just ideas on paper, like leading Jet.com's $140M Series A, and focuses on finding founders with deep conviction rather than just vision. Scott Friend is a former founder who built and sold a retail analytics company to Oracle before becoming a venture investor at Bain Capital Ventures, where he specializes in commerce and retail technology rather than investing broadly across tech sectors. He's known for making large, early bets on commerce companies when they're still just ideas on paper, like leading Jet.com's $140M Series A, and focuses on finding founders with deep conviction rather than just vision.