Steven Kan

Steven earned an Applied Physics degree with distinction from Yale and an MBA from UCLA Anderson, where he was a Venture Fellow. Currently, Steven is a member of the Yale Engineering Leadership Council, the Regional Medical Center of San Jose Board of Trustees, and is the Board Chair for the Peninsula Youth Sailing Foundation. He lives in Northern California and can be found sailing the Bay or skiing at Lake Tahoe with his wife and two children.

As Other Bets Director at Alphabet, Steven oversees Alphabet’s investments in operating companies and investment funds such as Waymo, Isomorphic Labs, Calico, Intrinsic, X, Tapestry GV, and CapitalG.

Prior to current position, Steven was Director of Operations for Google Cloud AI. Steven served as the COO for Cloud AI leading teams responsible for overall business and engineering operations. Additionally, Steven led Cloud’s Responsible AI and Data Privacy teams, ensuring that Cloud’s AI products met the highest safety and privacy standards. Steven joined Google in 2011 and ran business development for Google Drive, Chrome OS, Google Wifi, Android - products that are used by billions of people around the globe.

Before joining Google, Steven was Vice President of Business Operations at Apture (acquired by Google). Prior to Apture, Steven was with venture firms Clearstone and Redpoint, where he helped incubate new companies including the online video technology company Ankeena Networks (acquired by Juniper). Steven began his career in online media at Overture (acquired by Yahoo) where he helped start and grow the contextual advertising business to a $100 million run rate.

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Steven is a member of Kauffman Fellows Class 11 and served his fellowship under mentor Jim Armstrong at Clearstone Ventures in Menlo Park, CA.