Age, Biography and Wiki
David Friedberg was born on 1 June, 1980 in South Africa, is an American businessman (born 1980). Discover David Friedberg's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 43 years old?
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Entrepreneur, businessman, angel investor |
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43 years old |
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Gemini |
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1 June 1980 |
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1 June |
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South Africa |
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South Africa
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He is a member of famous businessman with the age 43 years old group.
David Friedberg Height, Weight & Measurements
At 43 years old, David Friedberg height not available right now. We will update David Friedberg's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.
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Dating & Relationship status
He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.
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David Friedberg Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is David Friedberg worth at the age of 43 years old? David Friedberg’s income source is mostly from being a successful businessman. He is from South Africa. We have estimated David Friedberg's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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| Net Worth in 2023 |
Pending |
| Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
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| Source of Income |
businessman |
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Timeline
David Albert Friedberg (born 1980 (age 33) ) is an American entrepreneur, businessman, and angel investor.
Friedberg was born c. 1980 in South Africa.
At age six, Friedberg moved with his family to Los Angeles, California.
In high school, Friedberg was president of the environmental club "Students H.O.P.E."
(Students Healing Our Planet Earth).
At age 16, he entered Clarkson University, in Potsdam, New York, where he worked in a pool hall and learned to play poker.
After one year in upstate New York, he transferred to University of California, Berkeley, where he had a part-time job doing mathematical modeling at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and received a Bachelor's Degree in Astrophysics in 2001.
After several years in investment banking and private equity, Friedberg joined Google in March 2004 as one of the first 1,000 employees and a founding member of Google's Corporate Development group.
As Corporate Development and Business Product Manager, Friedberg helped run Google's online advertising platform, AdWords, and negotiated acquisitions and worked with Google co-founder Larry Page.
In 2006, he founded his first company, WeatherBill, to create and buy custom weather insurance online.
Friedberg was still working at Google as a business product manager when the idea for the company came to him.
He was driving past the Bike Hut in San Francisco and seeing sales slump on rainy days as the thought occurred to him that the impact of weather on a business must be a big problem.
WeatherBill secured funding from Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Google Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Index Ventures and Atomico.
In 2011, Friedberg changed WeatherBill's name to The Climate Corporation.
The Climate Corporation focused on offering farmers weather insurance and the climate.com service to help them track, analyze, and make field-specific decisions on their farms to improve farming outcomes.
On 5 October 2011, Friedberg gave his Entrepreneurship Gives Life Meaning lecture at Stanford.
Friedberg founded car insurance firm Metromile in 2011 and served as its chairman during its early years.
He is also an angel investor in various technology, food, agriculture, and life sciences startups.
He founded and was chief executive of The Climate Corporation, whose $1.1 billion sale to Monsanto in 2013 made it the first unicorn in the emerging agricultural technology space.
He is currently founder and CEO of The Production Board (TPB).
Spanning his career, he has contributed to 32 patents.
In October 2013, Monsanto announced that it was acquiring The Climate Corporation for about $1.1 billion.
In 2014, he purchased Canadian quinoa supplier NorQuin, North America's largest supplier of quinoa.
In 2022, Above Food Corp. acquired Norquin and appointed Friedberg to its Innovation Advisory Council.
Friedberg is a lifelong vegetarian.
Friedberg joined Monsanto's Executive Team after the acquisition and in 2016 shifted to an advisory role.
In 2016, Friedberg began talking with Larry Page about a way to build and finance more startups focused on food, agriculture, decarbonization and life sciences.
Through parent company Alphabet, Page agreed to help finance a holding company that Friedberg would operate.
Friedberg founded The Production Board (TPB) in 2016.
TPB partners with scientists, businesspeople, and entrepreneurs to solve the world's challenges, such as climate change.
TPB portfolio businesses include Pattern Ag, Ohalo, Culture Biosciences, Triplebar Bio, Supergut and Cana.
In July 2021, Friedberg announced that The Production Board raised $300 million from Alphabet, Baillie Gifford, Allen & Co., BlackRock, Koch Disruptive Technologies and Morgan Stanley's Counterpoint Global.
