[1][2] Lloyd was an early investor in many companies that have gone public or merged, including online shoe company Zappos which was acquired by Amazon.com in 2009 in an all-stock deal worth about $1.2 billion and semantic job search engine Trovix which was acquired by Monster.com in 2008 for $72.5 million.
Lloyd is a board of directors' observer for LoopNet, MerchantCircle, MobilePlay, and Practice Technologies Inc.[5] He is a mentor for Los Angeles-based business incubator MuckerLab,[6] and has co-written an article for The Atlantic.
[10] Lloyd is active in philanthropy, and founded the San Francisco Media Arts Council.
[11] He served as commissioner for the San Francisco Art Commission,[12] and sits on the board of Slideluck.
[13] He has been on the board of SF Camerawork[14] and the Contemporary Extension of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.