Sujay Jaswa

Jaswa was earlier a principal at the venture capital firm New Enterprise Associates (NEA). He joined Dropbox in 2010 as one of its early employees and later served for years as its chief financial officer.⁠[1][2]

On February 11, 2015, Dropbox hired former Motorola Mobility executive Vanessa Wittman to succeed Jaswa as chief financial officer. Jaswa was to leave the company within the following months and expected to return to investing after the transition.⁠[1]

Jaswa and DreamWorks co-founder Jeffrey Katzenberg are the founding partners of WndrCo, a holding company that acquires, operates and develops businesses at the intersection of technology and media, based in Los Angeles and San Francisco; a regulatory filing disclosed in October 2017 showed that WndrCo had raised $591 million.⁠[2][3]

By August 2018 WndrCo had raised $750 million, much of it invested in NewTV, the mobile video startup launched by Katzenberg with Meg Whitman as CEO and later renamed Quibi; NewTV closed a $1 billion round that month. Quibi’s streaming service came to a halt in October 2020.⁠[4][2]

Since the 2019–20 academic year, Jaswa has been a Lecturer in Management (Organizational Behavior) at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, teaching the course “People Operations: From Startup to Scaleup,” continuing into the 2026–27 academic year.⁠[5]

In March 2022, describing WndrCo’s criteria, Jaswa said the firm looked for “founders that we think have a chance of cracking an important problem,” and described WndrCo as “the founders behind the founders.”⁠[2]

On June 4, 2024, WndrCo formally entered venture capital, closing more than $460 million in commitments across its first venture fund and a seed fund, with about $1.3 billion in assets under management. Besides Katzenberg and Jaswa, its general partners included ChenLi Wang, Anthony Saleh and Jeffrey Nykun; its venture portfolio included 1Password1Password1Password is an identity security software company headquartered in Toronto, Canada (contracting entity AgileBits Inc.). It was founded in 2005 by Dave Teare and Roustem Karimov, built its business on the password manager of the same name, and in October 2026 announced that its annual recurring revenue had surpassed $500 million.Open the full entry, Airtable, Databricks, Deel and Figma, and its seed fund had invested in companies including Writer and Alembic. WndrCo later operated under the WNDR brand, whose website describes Jaswa as a founding partner and an investor in Figma, Databricks and 1Password.⁠[6][7]

In September 2026 it became public that Jaswa had co-founded, with Katzenberg and former OpenAIOpenAIOpenAI is an artificial intelligence research and product organization founded in 2015 that develops the GPT model series, ChatGPT, Codex and a developer API, and conducts research on image, speech, video and intelligent agents. After its 2025 restructuring, the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation continues to control the for-profit OpenAI Group PBC. Its growth has involved large-scale fundraising and compute partnerships, and has also been accompanied by controversies over governance, copyright, privacy and AI safety.Open the full entry Sora lead Bill PeeblesBill PeeblesBill Peebles is an artificial intelligence researcher, first author of the diffusion transformer (DiT) paper, who led OpenAI’s video-generation model Sora and, after leaving OpenAI in 2026, co-founded an AI video startup for filmmakers.Open the full entry, a startup training AI video models purpose-built for filmmakers; its name, funding size and lead investors were not disclosed.⁠[8]

In October 2026 the startup was reportedly in talks with OpenAI for access to its discontinued video-generation model Sora, in order to customize it and sell software and services on top of it; a deal would give it deep enough access to substantially customize the model, though whether it would receive the weights was unclear.⁠[9][10]

WndrCo: Official website: https://wndr.vc/ (opens in a new window)⁠[7]

Stanford Graduate School of Business: Official website: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/ (opens in a new window)⁠[5]