Scott Banister

About

is a technologist, founder, and early-stage investor known for spotting transformational ideas before they go mainstream. He was a founding board member of PayPal, where he helped shape the company’s early direction. He also invented paid advertising via keyword auction—now the internet’s dominant business model. As an operator, Scott co-founded IronPort, an anti-spam company that sold to Cisco for $830 million. He brings deep experience across both building and backing frontier companies, with early investments in Uber, SpaceX, Postmates, and DeepMind, among many others. At Long Journey, Scott serves as a Venture Partner, where he supports founders building breakthrough technologies with unconventional insight, product intuition, and a healthy disregard for the status quo.

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