Professor, Investor, Founder: Meet Jeffrey J. Bussgang
Jeffrey J. Bussgang has spent his career at the intersection of startup experimentation and transformative technology. For over a decade, he has taught one of Harvard Business School’s most popular entrepreneurship courses, Launching Tech Ventures, where he's helped thousands of founders build and scale successful companies.
As co-founder of Flybridge Capital Partners (a leading seed VC fund with over $1 billion under management), he and his partners were early to recognize AI’s potential to transform startups, evolving the firm’s investment thesis to focus exclusively on AI-forward companies and founders.
Before his time as an educator and investor, Bussgang experienced the startup journey firsthand—joining Open Market’s early team and helping lead it through an IPO in 1996, and then co-founding Upromise in 2000, which was successfully acquired.
This unique vantage point—as professor, investor, and startup executive—has given him an unmatched perspective on how AI is revolutionizing the startup landscape.
Now, he’s sharing the frameworks and insights to help a new generation of founders build faster and smarter than ever before.
To read more from Jeffrey Bussgang, pick up his other books, Mastering the VC Game and Entering Startupland. You can also follow him on LinkedIn and read his blog (also called The Experimentation Machine).