All memos tagged #investor

Sam Altman is an American entrepreneur and investor who co-founded OpenAI in 2015 and has served as its chief executive since 2019. He was previously president of Y Combinator from 2014 to 2019, and...

Bob Bausmith is an electrical engineer, enterprise systems architect, and angel investor who chairs the board of SpokenLayer. He founded Accelerate Innovation, an advisory firm for startups and...

Robert Smith is an impact investor and philanthropist who founded ICV Group in 2014 and, as of 2026, leads it as founder and chief executive under its current name, Conscious Capital. The firm...

Shawn Colo is an investor and entrepreneur who co-founded 3L Capital, a growth equity firm with offices in Los Angeles and New York that backs consumer, technology, and data services companies. He...

Pete Higgins is a technology executive and investor, and a founding partner of Second Avenue Partners, a Seattle firm that provides management, strategy, and capital to early-stage companies. He...

Scott Gurfein is an American entrepreneur and investor, and the founder and managing director of ProductEQUITIES, a revenue accelerator and investor focused on scaling high-potential consumer...

Michael Marino is a private equity investor and a partner at Aurora Capital Partners, a Los Angeles private equity firm focused on middle-market companies. He joined Aurora in 2003 and was promoted...

Adrian Grant-Alfieri, who works professionally as Adrian Alfieri, is an American entrepreneur and angel investor, and the founder and CEO of Verbatim, a Brooklyn content studio he launched in January...

John Van Hooser is a private equity and venture investor with a career spanning venture, growth, and buyout investments in media and communications, IT services, and healthcare. He joined Fountain...

Sam Lessin is an investor, founder, and former product operator, and a General Partner at Slow Ventures, the early-stage venture firm he co-founded in 2011. He writes the "Modest Proposals" column at...

Ethan Lu is an entrepreneur, investor, and co-founder of CBD Capital Group. I graduated from the University of California, San Diego, in 2016 with a bachelor science degree in Mathematics and a minor...

Randall Cox is an investor and Managing Director of Winnick & Co, the private investment firm of financier and philanthropist Gary Winnick. He is also Chief Investment Officer of uCast Global...

Rick Prostko is an investor and venture-capitalist backing consumer internet companies — commerce, marketplaces, and digital media — from seed through growth stage. Since 2021 he has led direct...

Toby Benson is an entertainment marketer and artist manager, a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and musician. He's the founder of Discord (music management), co-founder of Versa (talent buying,...

Jevan Fox is the CEO of USOKIE, a Los Angeles commerce-infrastructure company that operates the end-to-end commercial layer behind physical goods — design, manufacturing, distribution, platform...

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...

Daniel Liebeskind is a software-engineer, technical-founder, and y-combinator-alumni with a background in investment banking and venture capital. Liebeskind is co-founder and CEO/CTO of Topia, an...

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Naval Ravikant is the co-founder and CEO of AngelList. Reflections “Specific knowledge that looks like work to others feels like play to me.” ~ Ravikant...

Connie Chan is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, a Silicon Valley based technology venture capital firm with over $7B under management. Since joining Andreessen Horowitz in 2011, Connie has...