About
René Lacerte is a technology entrepreneur who founded BILL in 2006, a financial operations platform for small and midsize businesses that went public in 2019 and later acquired Divvy, Invoice2Go, and Finmark. Before BILL, he founded the online payroll company PayCycle (acquired by Intuit in 2009) and earlier spent five years at Intuit working on bill payment, credit card, and payroll products. He holds an M.S. in industrial engineering and a B.A. in quantitative economics from Stanford University.
Invests in
Fintech
Experience
- BILLCEO and Foundercurrent2006 — present
- Kent SchoolBoard of Trustees2010 — 2019
- PayCycleCo-Founder & CEO /CFO1999 — 2006
- IntuitGroup Product Manager1997 — 1999
- IntuitSenior Product Manager1994 — 1997
- CertiData CorporationVP of Operations/Development1992 — 1993
- Price WaterhouseSenior Consultant1989 — 1992
Education
- Stanford UniversityMS IE1988 — 1989
- Stanford UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA, Economics1985 — 1989
- Kent
Skills & more
SaaS34Enterprise Software9Salesforce.com5Start-ups99Product Management73Strategic Partnerships60Venture Capital39Business Strategy23Financial Analysis8Small Business37Mergers2Product Marketing3
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Cloud ComputingCorporate DevelopmentMarketingSellingProduct DevelopmentBusiness ProcessEntrepreneurshipFinanceCross-functional Team LeadershipCompetitive AnalysisE-commerceLeadershipFrom René's professional profile.
Same school
Also attended Stanford University1,578
Peter ThielCo-founder & Partner at Founders FundReid HoffmanCo-founder of LinkedIn; Partner at GreylockDavid SacksCo-founder & General Partner at Craft Ventures; former White House AI & Crypto CzarKeith RaboisManaging Director at Khosla VenturesGarry TanPresident & CEO of Y CombinatorAlfred LinPartner at Sequoia Capital
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Shared employers
Also worked at Kent School2
Also worked at PayCycle1
Also worked at Intuit61
Nate WangVP of Investments at Plum Alley InvestmentsDavid HahnCISO Operating Partner at Ballistic VenturesGregory BillingtonResearch at Transform Capital ManagementArjun AroraInvestor at Streamlined VenturesAdam CoccariManaging Director at HubSpot VenturesTekedra MawakanaCo-CEO, Waymo at Operator Collective
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