Irene Au

Irene Au is the design partner at Khosla Ventures, where she advises startup CEOs and works to help their companies be successful through an empathetic understanding of people and better design. She has built and led the user experience and design teams at Google, Yahoo! and Udacity. She began her career as an interaction designer at Netscape Communications, where she worked on the development of the first commercial web browser for the internet.

Irene Au is the author of the widely acclaimed O’Reilly book “Design in Venture Capital”; her essays can be found on the Medium platform. She is also a trustee of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.