DFJ Growth

You have to be innovative to create totally new ways of solving problems that can lead to a long-term solution.

We’re on a mission to meet the total patient demand for cell therapies globally. Over the next decades, millions of patients will live who…

By Justin Kao, Jocelyn Kinsey, and Rob Ciechowski

It was one of those odd circumstances that just happens when you put together lots of open-minded young people who are slightly terrified…

We have operating principles we recruit against. The first operating principle is always to put the mission first.

By: Jocelyn Kinsey, Randy Glein, Chris Shanahan, Kevin Tu

by Tess Vorselen

By Randy Glein and Kevin Tu

Especially for first-time founders, there’s a lot that we’re learning. At the same time, it’s important to stay true to yourself and your…

By Carol Wentworth

By Carol Wentworth

But by the early 2000s, I realized that climate change was going to be a really, really, really big deal. I also realized that the energy…

By Justin Kao, Jocelyn Kinsey, and Delaney Ugelstad

By Barry Schuler and Chris Shanahan

By Justin Kao, Barry Schuler, Jocelyn Kinsey, Delaney Ugelstad

The challenge in building something that is counterintuitive is that it’s counterintuitive. Not everybody is going to get it. But if it’s…

By Sam Fort and Sam Shapiro

By Sam Fort, Randy Glein, and Sam Shapiro

By Randy Glein, Sam Fort, and Chris Shanahan

by Randy Glein and Barry Schuler, co-founders and partners, DFJ Growth

by Barry Schuler, Jocelyn Kinsey, Randy Glein, and Chris Shanahan

Faking it is when you see another company out there, and you say, “We just want to be like them. What’s their tagline? Just use the…