Please join us in welcoming Tyrone Anderson to the Cowboy Posse - he just joined us as a venture partner, based in our Palo Alto Office, yeehaw! 🤠

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I first met Tyrone in 2017, when he joined our enterprise infrastructure portfolio company Lightstep (we were fortunate to lead their pre-product seed round). After successful initial founder-led selling, it was time to add the right someone with a combo of GTM pedigree and early stage hustle. Someone who could be a player-coach - who could roll up their sleeves to help deliver our numbers, while adding strategy, structure, execution and scale to our early GTM efforts. Tyrone joined as our first VP of Customer Success. The Lightstep founders were very excited, as he seemed like a ‘unicorn’ - with GTM pedigree and the risk-on mentality to be our first senior commercial lead, plus a strong technical background and chops as a sales engineer, and a passion for helping build an inclusive team and culture. 

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Over his years at Lightstep, Tyrone grew to become our Chief Commercial Officer, helping lead the company and land and expand countless customers, and working on our acquisition for ~$800m by Service Now, where he became AVP of Global Cloud Observability Sales and Customer Success for several years. 

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Tyrone has a great nose and passion for opportunities in the tech ecosystem, having been an early team member at a series of successful VC-backed teams in martech, adtech, healthtech, and dev-focused infrastructure. He also has a great nose for talent - former colleagues consistently shared with me how great he is at recruiting and developing both pedigreed and less pedigreed talent into incredible contributors. 

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Tyrone joins our team to help us meet, assess, and back the most promising early stage B2B infrastructure and application companies, plus help Cowboy portfolio companies scale world-class GTM operations. 

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If you're building a company reimagining B2B software through AI or are on a mission to create an entirely new category in enterprise tech - we'd love to hear from you. You can reach Tyrone at ‘tyrone [at] cowboy [dot] vc’, and us at ‘hello [at] cowboy [dot] vc’.

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