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First Round Capital is making a key hire today. The firm has brought on former LiveOps CEO and CallCast co-founder and CEO Bill Trenchard as a partner in First Round’s San Francisco office. This is the first time since 2006, that First Round has hired someone from outside the firm as partner; First Round has always promoted partners from within. The firm is also announcing that it has raised $20 million more to its most recently launched fund, bringing the total to nearly $160 million.

Seed stage VC at First Round Capital

I recently met with First Round’s Bill Trenchard, who is a managing partner and has helped startups launch and manage through hyper growth and win. I asked him about the traits he’d seen in the most productive CEOs, and he identified six characteristics that CEOs develop when facing the challenges of scaling the company and scaling themselves. Scaling the Organization   1. Relentless focus. When Bill met Mark Zuckerberg in 2005, he …

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Bill Trenchard is planning to spend his summer making investments for First Round Capital, Fortune has learned. He will work out of the firm's West Coast office for at least the next several months, after which he may remain with First Round or move onto another endeavor.

Bill is a partner at First Round Capital. As a founder, operator, advisor and angel investor, Bill has helped dozens of companies launch, manage through hyper growth and win.

Bill Trenchard on Forbes

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