SV Angel, the angel fund founded by super-angel Ron Conway, is losing one of its general partners to a portfolio company. Brian Pokorny is now the CEO of fast-growing Silicon Valley-based Dailybooth.
Dailybooth, the runner up in the “best social app” and winner of the “time sink” categories at this year’s Crunchies Awards, is “your life in pictures.” Some 6 million monthly visitors share pictures and status updates with eachother. “It’s a community for self expression,” says Pokorny.
A typical interaction: a users posts a photo, taken with their webcam, showing what they’re eating, what they’re feeling, or perhaps with friends in the background. Other user then respond via text or photos. Some strings go on for hundreds of responses. Here’s an example.
The company, originally incubated by Y Combinator, has raised just under $1 million from notable investors such as Sequoia Capital, SV Angel, Betaworks, Kevin Rose, Caterina Fake, Chris Sacca, Joshua Schachter, Gary Vaynerchuk and Aydin Senkut.
Founders Jon Wheatley and Ryan Amos will remain in their current roles at Dailybooth.
Pokorny has worked with Conway on his various investments since 2006, and has racked up quite an angel portfolio of his own. He owns stakes in Twitter, Square, Milo, Blippy, Bump, Tweetdeck, OMGPOP and others.
He’s staying close to SV Angel, too. In addition to his new role as CEO of Dailybooth, Pokorny will remain as a Strategic Partner with SV Angel where he will continue to provide key insights into sourcing and evaluating investment opportunities in social media and other sectors.
“I’m excited to have Brian join one of our hottest portfolio startups and lead it to the next level,” said Ron Conway via email. “He will remain part of the core team at SV Angel as a strategic partner, and I look forward to working with him in this new role.”
SV Angel has also been in the new recently – they are reportedly closing a new $10 million fund, the first time the fund will take outside investors to participate in their startup investments.
This is huge. Dailybooth is on a rocket ship.
so…thats all it does?
Congrats Brian!
awesome news and congrats to brian. He is a star and working for and with ron and all those great entrepreneurs and executives will only help dailybooth continue its momentum….
Brian is one of the most brilliant strategic thinkers in Silicon Valley. Congrats to Brian and Dailybooth!
Wow – huge congrats to Brian and SV Angel. This is exciting news!
I hate to say it, but what is so good about another “Social” site that connects school kids with photos?
“A typical interaction: a users posts a photo, taken with their webcam, showing what they’re eating, what they’re feeling, or perhaps with friends in the background”
Why in the hell would you do that? At what point do you say to yourself. Enough is Enough, SPEAK UP, not TEXT UP, or CLICK UP. we are losing our identity as human beings. We are becoming just another adaptor.
I bet you if someone invented a device that sucks every thought out of your brain and tweet about it, it would be FUNDed 500 BILLION, and now every marketer in the world can tap directly into peoples brains and suck the living soul right out of them. IMAGINE THE POSSIBLITIES? I can data mine the crap out of everyone and have 100% sales targets.
WAKE UP PEOPLE!
suck brain, and tweet.. yang that is brilliant.. im taking requests from anyone that is looking to fund this idea.
If you don’t get it, then you’re not apart of the target market. Which is why you don’t make money and are relegated to posting comments on TC.
obviously im not the target market. and I’m asking why would you be?
how did you conclude that if I’m not in the target market, therefore I make no money? please share your insight on this one.
and also, please share your insight into the business model for dailybooth? or perhaps its distribution model and also the problem that it solves.
do share
You obviously don’t understand the 13-20 year-old market, do you? It’s ALL about texting, photos, etc..
This is why you’re leaving comments on TC, and not running a company. But keep at it, because one less imbecile is that much less noise for real entrepreneurs.
What is the point? Where’s the revenue going to come from? THIS is a business? LOL. Good Luck!
Dailybooth has 250K uniques according to comScore and 260K according to Compete. There’s a reason most people trust third-party analytics.
do you really think comScore and compete, etc., fairly index every site?
i trust internal numbers combined with independent 3rd party survey data.
comScore is a scam.
You mean “mistrust third-party analytics”, right?
Can’t ignore that the company is claiming 40 times more traffic AND a growth trajectory that no 3rd party Stats service bears out. Compete/comscore are not perfect but not this wrong and are data points and a blinking red light on this company.
a great team gets even better. totally psyched about everything dailybooth is doing, and brian will bring even more to the table
i don’t see how this couldn’t be duplicated by twitter very easily..even from look and feel , and usability its very similar to twitter. best of luck.
Congrats Brian! Well deserved.
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This story is suspect. I heard BP was moving to Canada.
Things are constantly changing in the world of online and offline business
This is just plain stupid. And if it’s successful, all of the users are just plain stupid, too. Lord help us if this is what the Web has come to.
/Ira
The bubble is back.
Congrats to Brian. I’m sure he’s going to successful and take Dailybooth to the next level.
I dont see myself using dailybooth
Wow. Brian is extremely talented. This is an impressive pickup and I believe he’s going to be an outstanding CEO.
Really, how so? Explain.
I’ve met Brian a bunch of times and he’s one smart guy. I’m a big fan.
Congrats Brian! One of the nicest and most helpful guys in venture!!
Yawn.
Brian Pokorny has no operational experience; what’s so great about this? Sometimes the decisions some companies and VCs make astound me. DailyBooth may be a nifty little site for teeny boppers, but what valuation do you think it will achieve in two or three years?
Here’s where all the stupid comments will come in.
The only reason why they’re successful is because a lot of famous YouTube users use it.
Brian is a rock star. Bet against him at your peril.