Objective

David Carrico is a #LA-based, #entrepreneur, and #investor who, by the age of 25, had #exited two companies and developed a lucrative portfolio of angel investments. Most recently, Carrico founded Valparasio Pictures, a film and television finance and production company that empowers filmmakers to take creative risks. Valparaiso was founded in 2017 and sold in 2021. Prior to Valparaiso Pictures, Carrico founded EvntLive, which he sold to Yahoo! in 2013, and has been an early-stage investor across media, technology, and consumer products.

Carrico's mother, Judy Estrin, is known as one of the four co-creators of TCP/IP; the protocol at the backbone of today's internet. She and Carrico's father created nine companies that developed technologies ubiquitous in today's world—imparting wisdom to their son at every step along the way. Carrico, a child of Silicon Valley, inherited both his parents' knowledge and their ambition.

Subjective

David was introduced to me by Mark Goulston and later hired me to develop the growth strategy for PrimeMind; an online publication featuring exploratory journalism designed to foster critical thinking. My consulting contract evolved into employment as the startup's Chief Marketing Officer. When it became apparent that the publication was too early to market, he refunded his investors and took a >$1M personal loss; a choice that highlighted his business acumen and his character.

David's current investment focus is web3, gaming, metaverse future of work etc. skewing more consumer technologies.

Anecdotes

• Legend

Contexts

• #david-carrico (this is the Root Memo)

• #advisor-of-one-inc (See: One Inc)

• #exited

• #orange-sticky (See: My Sticky Wall)