Samantha Gordon

Overview

Partner at Goldcrest Venture Partners, backing fintech companies. Led or co-led 18 investments, 6 of them now at Series B or later. Before that: Disney and Instacart. Most at home with venture capital and board work.

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Experience

1. Partner

   Sep 2025 - Present
   Goldcrest Venture Partners · 1 yr 1 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
   • Took crash-free sessions from 98.5% to 99.8%.
   • Grew the Android team from 3 to 36 engineers.
   • Cut p99 latency on the Android services from 716ms to 118ms.
2. Account Executive

   Feb 2023 - Sep 2025
   Disney · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
   • Shortened the mid-market sales cycle from 12 months to 4.
3. Sales Manager

   Sep 2021 - Feb 2023
   Instacart · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
   • Closed 182% of quota two years running.
   • Shortened the public sector sales cycle from 7 months to 6.
4. Account Executive

   Nov 2017 - Sep 2021
   HubSpot · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
   • Shortened the enterprise sales cycle from 9 months to 4.
   • Signed 23 channel partners that now source 40% of pipeline.
5. Sales Development Representative

   Apr 2015 - Nov 2017
   DoorDash · 2 yr 7 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
   • Shortened the enterprise sales cycle from 10 months to 3.
   • Closed 201% of quota two years running.

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Education

1. Johns Hopkins University

   MS, Economics
   2005 - 2007
2. Stanford University

   BS, Economics
   2001 - 2005