Merci Victoria Grace

Merci Victoria Grace is an investor and product leader who specializes in growth, engagement, and design. She’s a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, where she invests in both consumer and enterprise companies. After graduating with a degree in fiction writing from the University of Southern California, she founded a venture-backed social games company, GameLayers. Her first game, PMOG: The Nethernet, was nominated for MMO of the Year in 2009 but lost to World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade. Merci focused on engagement and paid conversion at various SF-based startups before joining Slack, where she was the first Head of Product and ran the Growth team as a Director of Product. She led the company from 500k daily active users to over 6M daily active users in less than three years. She founded the Women in Product community in 2015, which has grown to over 13,000 women worldwide. Fast Company named her one of the Most Creative People in 2017.

Storytelling, building intuitive products, remote work

Mythology is destiny

Predicting which car is about change lanes whilst driving.