Joe Kraus

Joe Kraus

President @ Lime

About

I’m an experienced entrepreneur, investor and operator who thrives on being ‘in the Arena’ (h/t Teddy Roosevelt) and leading teams. I am intrinsically motivated by ‘winning with friends’ and I love the bonds that form when a group of people struggles together to do the seemingly impossible. I co-founded one of the first Internet search engines, Excite.com in 1993, taking it public in 1996 and selling it in 2000 ($6.7Bn transaction). In 2004, I co-founded a second company, JotSpot, focused on collaboration, and sold it to Google in 2006. I helped to scale up Google Ventures (GV) in 2009 where I was a General Partner for 10 years investing in mostly Transportation (companies like Turo, KeepTruckin' Flock Freight and Lime) and Marketplaces (StockX, Peerspace). Currently, I’ve returned to operating as President of Lime where I oversee Product, including all hardware design, engineering, supply chain and logistics and all software product management, research, design and engineering. Lime is working to return cities everywhere to being about their people, not their cars, and in doing so, we’re striving to help on the most important problem of our time, climate.

Country

United States

City

Palo Alto

Industry

Internet

Skill

-

Experience

Lime

President

Lime

LinkedIn
2018-11 - Present · 7 yrs 11 mos

Transportation accounts for approximately 25% of greenhouse gas emissions. Lime's mission is to positively impact climate change by moving trips from cars to smaller electric vehicles and, in doing so, return cities everywhere to being about their people, not their cars. Lime is the largest global micromobility provider, operating a large fleet of e-scooters, e-bikes and e-mopeds in over 200 cities worldwide. To give a sense of scale, Lime operates more vehicles than the entire public transportation system of the United States, FedEx, UPS or DHL. As Lime's President, I oversee our entire Product organization, including all Hardware design and engineering (we design and build our own vehicles), Supply Chain and Logistics, and all Software product management, research, design and engineering. If you're interested in impacting climate change and helping to develop a business that is having positive impact on the world, Lime is growing quickly, and we're hiring in multiple roles across all product disciplines. We were fortunate to be named one of Time Magazine's Most Influential companies in 2021.

Google

Partner

Google

LinkedIn
2009-10 - 2018-11 · 9 yrs 2 mos

I served for 10 years as a General Partner at GV, joining the firm in its founding year and helping to scale it up in its early years with a focus on recruiting partners as well as building key operating teams around design and recruiting. On investments, I was focused primary on Marketplaces with companies such as StockX and Peerspace, and Transportation with companies such as Turo, KeepTruckin', Flock Freight and Lime.

Google

Director of Product Management

Google

LinkedIn
2006-11 - 2009-10 · 3 yrs
Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

Board Member

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)

LinkedIn
2005-6 - 2012-9 · 7 yrs 4 mos
JotSpot

CEO

JotSpot

LinkedIn
2003-6 - 2006-10 · 3 yrs 5 mos

CEO of JotSpot, the application wiki company. JotSpot offers a wiki ASP that allows you to centralize unstructured information inside your company. Also, using JotSpot users can built lightweight web-based applications to manage custom business processes.

DigitalConsumer.org

Founder

DigitalConsumer.org

2002-3 - 2005-4 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Founded DigitalConsumer.org, a 50,000 person political lobbying organization to fight for consumer and technology rights in digital copyright reform.

Excite

Founder

Excite

LinkedIn
1993-6 - 2000-4 · 6 yrs 11 mos

I co-founded one of the first Internet search engines in 1993, took the company public in 1996, and sold the company in 2000 in a $6.7Bn transaction. I was the founding CEO and I primarily led the product organization including engineering, product management, design and user research.

Education

Stanford University

Stanford University

LinkedIn

Political Science

1989-9 - 1993-6 · 3 yrs 10 mos

Joe Kraus's Contact Information

Email

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Phone

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