A long-time startup entrepreneur, Rich Klau moved to Google as a result of its acquisition of FeedBurner in 2007. After a year in business development at Google, Klau transitioned into product management, where he worked on Blogger, Google+, and YouTube. In 2011, he joined GV as a partner on the operating team, and was there for just over 9 years.

In February, 2021, Klau was appointed by Governor Gavin Newsom to serve as California’s Chief Technology Innovation Officer, where he runs the Office of Enterprise Technology at the California Department of Technology.

Rick has lent technology advice to three US Presidential campaigns, ran the campaign weblog for President Barack Obama in his 2004 Senate race, ran product strategy for and managed Google's presence at the Democratic National Convention in 2008, and was the creator of superdelegates.org, a collaborative website that profiled all of the 700+ Democratic National Committee superdelegates and presented them in a Google Earth layer.

He is the co-author of three books about the Internet, was co-author of a long-running technology column on technology for the American Bar Association, and has presented to more than 70 audiences about the impact technology is having on business, politics, and society. Interviews with Rick have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Newsweek, Washington Post, InfoWorld, CIO Magazine, Information Week, and dozens of others. His work has been featured on CNN, in the New York Times, on NPR, and Wired Magazine.

Rick is married to Robin, has three children and lives in Northern California.

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