I made this to give people a deeper insight into who I am, my dedication to my craft, what I hold true, and to make it easier to get up to speed about me as a person.
My original goal since I was about 17 was to accumulate financial capital and convert it into social change. I studied socioeconomic status, read a bunch of peer-reviewed research papers like the Princeton x Northwestern study, and saw the stuff around social mobility (socioeconomics of healthcare, socioeconomic status of parents and its impact on their children, socioeconomic status and its affect on infant mortality etc) upward social mobility of millennials vs previous generations etc etc, and I wanted to be in a position to do something about it.
I didn’t just want to go to law school or try to be a politician, I wanted to use business.
My position has kinda morphed to generally believing the best chance someone has of being an activist is being a billionaire. I wanted to be a billionaire for the longest so I worked like one. Most people want to be a billionaire but are afraid to take it seriously, I took it seriously.
Now my goal is to maximize myself then do some social benefit when I have the ability. Hopefully real substantive social benefit, and Idk what that looks like yet. I’m just preparing, studying all the stuff I need to study in the meantime until.
Some were about teaching VC and some were basically doing the job of an analyst. I did everything from run my own due diligence processes to writing investment memos to sourcing deals at my campus, attending pitch competitions, collaborating with other fellows on group projects, to simply networking with and learning from more experienced VCs in webinars or informal mentoring conversations.
We tried to build a tool that quantified the qualitative information about private investments. People use all sorts of subjective info to underwrite private deals (composition of a team, etc etc) . We wanted to build charts and graphs that showed what of this mattered over time (like Bloomberg). “Does the amount of press that a startup receives materially affect its outcomes?” (You’d have to break this down etc into what do you mean by the “amount” of press, differences in press coverage by domain, what you even mean by “press coverage” define differences in quality of press coverage etc, do user-generated content sites like reddit factor in etc)
But essentially the ideas was: “Does the amount of press that a startup receives materially affect its outcomes?” Here’s a chart
The problem with this idea is it is incredibly difficult to get off the ground. Takes a lot of R & D spend early to generate reliable results. We decided to pivot to crypto as our beachhead market because it is a very subjective asset class and a lot of that qualitative information is more public than traditional private companies. Pivot was good but for all sorts of internal reasons we weren’t the right horses to do the idea at the time.
Here is what I’m like outside of work: