After spending 15 years working at the convergence of media and technology, Paul has spend the last 13 years in venture capital advising and investing in early stage entrepreneurs. He founded the Mailroom Fund in 2008 in partnership with Accel and Venrock and then went on to join Greycroft Partners in their West Coast Office in January 2011 where he continues to serve as a Venture Partner, while concurrently co-founding and serving as the Managing Director of Amplify -the leading LA-based pre-seed fund which has invested in and helped nurture 100 companies in the past 10 years. He serves on the current LA Mayor's Council for Technology and Innovation and is in his 25th year teaching a class on the Impact of Technology on Media in the Graduate School of Cinema Television at the University of Southern California.