<P> While at Google, Sacca began investing in companies as an angel investor, Sacca was hired at Google as Corporate Counsel reporting to General Counsel David Drummond . His first mandate was to find an infinite amount of data space, negotiate and sign agreements around the world . Sacca was among the first Google employees given the Founders' Award, the company's highest honor . </P> <P> Sacca served as Head of Special Initiatives at Google Inc . He led the alternative access and wireless divisions . His most publicly visible projects include the 700 MHz and TV white spaces spectrum initiatives, Google's data center in Oregon, and the free citywide WiFi network in Mountain View, California . Sacca also led many of Google's business development and Mergers and acquisitions transactions . He was on the founding team of the company's New Business Development organization . </P> <P> Sacca left Google in December 2007 after he had fully vested and sought opportunities to work with small companies (at an early stage). He did not have an abundance of funds typically available to venture capitalists or angel investors, which led to him being very involved in the companies he decided to invest in to help secure his return of investment including attending meetings at Twitter and Uber where he negotiated the rights for the name from Universal Music Group . His first angel investment was in Photobucket, which was then sold to Fox's parent company News Corp . His second investment was Twitter for $25,000 . At one point, he exhausted all of his savings purchasing Twitter shares and was technically insolvent . He was also a professional advisor to companies for a variety of matters, from crafting strategy to optimizing user experience to helping raise money and selling the company . This included Octomatic (sold to Live Current Media) and Omnisio (sold to Google / YouTube). He either invested his own money or received equity in exchange for advising . </P> <P> In December 2007, Sacca founded venture capital firm Lowercase Capital . The fund provides capital and advisory services to start - ups and late - stage companies alike . Lowercase also has non-tech - related companies including Blue Bottle Coffee Company as well as a high end restaurant in Truckee . Forbes and Fortune have labeled Lowercase as one of the most successful venture capital funds in history from a "a return multiple perspective ." Sacca has stated that a turning point was in 2007 when he moved to the town of Truckee in the mountains close to Lake Tahoe, where his hot tub the "Jam Tub" was born . Entrepreneurs including Travis Kalanick and Sacca would spend hours discussing ideas in the "Jam Tub ." Eventually, Sacca bought the house next door to house the various young entrepreneurs that came to visit . </P>

He was a very successful entrepreneur in the silicon valley