Steven Lurie
Verified
Steven Lurie is the founder of Team Builder Ventures, a venture capital firm to help founders build world-class teams.
Steven was a member of Zynga’s Executive Staff from the early days of the company through the IPO where he was the first Head of Mobile before building a team in India and heading International.
Previously, he was CEO of Advice Company, a leading legal advice service. Steven was part of the original management team at Ingenio, backed by Benchmark and the pioneer of pay-per-call advertising before an acquisition by AT&T in 2007. Steven held a variety of roles at Microsoft, including in the enterprise software division, from 1993-1999.
Steven organizes Run for Teachers in honor of his late sister and to benefit schoolchildren in India and Louisiana. He co-founded the Full Circle Fund, a philanthropy group helping social entrepreneurs. He is a participant in the Swim Across America swim in the San Francisco Bay to raise money for childhood cancer research and is the #1 national fundraiser for 2017.
Steven graduated from Stanford University and Harvard Law School.