After departing from his CEO role at Evernote in July, Phil Libin has joined venture capital firm General Catalyst as a partner. Libin helped create the popular productivity app in 2007 and led it as CEO until his departure a few months ago. At the time, he told The Information that he considers himself more of a "product person" and the company needed a "professional" CEO.
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