Serial founder, startup advisor and angel investor. Developer early AI. EIR, Antler. Speaker, mayoral candidate, fan of leveraging tech for social impact.
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This week’s Spotlight is @scottken! Stay tuned & start by watching his talk! #TEDxUtrecht ow.ly/4nji3w
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Join for free: a virtual conf with 1000+ LPs, Family Offices, Funds of Funds, & GPs of VC, PE, RE, & Hedge Funds – Nov 26 on Zoom. $100M+ & $1B+ Single FOs, LPs, FoFs & other investment firms have confirmed their participation. Like & reply "+" to get the invite in DM (we're at 1200+ regs now).
Our previous event attracted attendees with a combined AUM of $1.6 trillion, including: 270 Single Family Offices, 90 Multi Family Offices, 180 Funds of Funds, 300 LPs, 570 angels, & hundreds of GPs.
For the first time, we're adding a virtual Private Networking Lounge with LPs, FoFs & FOs in addition to speakers' Zoom panels & presentations (US, EU, & UAE):
1) $1B+ Family Office panel: In what and how are we investing? RE, PE, VC & other alternatives – Shubhra Jain @ Tarsadia SFO ($2B); Neetu Puranikmath @ Cooper Family Office.
2) 2x+ DPI Club: How to return your LPs more than expected? – Justin Stebbins @ Northgate Capital ($5B); Douglas Mellinger @ Clarion Capital Partners ($1.8B)
3) Family Office Trends 2025 – Uli Maybach @ Maybach Foundation; Christian D Evans @ Pax Fortis Multi-Family Office. Moderated by Valerie Bertele @ Yellow Rocks.
4) 1st-generation UHNWI strategies: 1. Launch a SFO, or 2. Join a Multi-Family Office, or 3. Other ways to preserve & grow capital? – Shane Neman @ SFO / Neman Ventures; Lisa Morris @ AKS Single Family Office.
5) How to Grow AUM of a Fund in 2025: Best Fundraising Practices for PE, VC, RE, & Hedge Funds – David Butler @ Argosy Real Estate Partners ($3.6B); Jaclyn Baumgarten @ IDC Ventures ($650M AUM, IDC Network $2.5B); Ed H. @ Arena LP ($3.4B).
6) Why FoFs exist, and why LPs accept double-layer fees? – Chuck Tedeschi @ Top Tier Capital Partners ($8B); Scott Sherman @ Mesa Lane Capital Partners.
7) How to harness AI for sourcing, evaluation, and reporting? – Logan Allin @ Fin Capital.
8) How Governments Can Attract Capital, Innovations & Talent by Focusing on Venture Studios? – Preslav Panayotov @ VentureWaves Innovation Network
9) State of Venture Q3 2024 – Benjamin Lawrence @ CB Insights.
10) $2T growing Private Credit Market & what it means for Private Credit Secondaries – Brett Hickey @ StarMountain Capital ($4B+).
11) Collaboration between Family Offices, Venture Studios, VC Funds, & Corporations – Ahmed Nasser Al Nowais @ Annex Investments; Daniela Plattner @ Palm Venture Studios; Marc Wesselink @ venturerock.
12) What do our private banking clients want to invest in? Our portfolio construction – Orley J. Pacheco @ Wells Fargo ($2T)
@margauxmaccoll @ @TechCrunch, @SaacksAttack @ @BusinessInsider, Abby Schultz @ @barronsonline, @theMetz will moderate some of the panels
More speakers/moderators on the website.
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This will only be effective if EVERYONE refrains from tweeting (X-ing?) on August 1st a/k/a #TweetlessTuesday. Let's show the owner the POWER OF THE PEOPLE. Honestly, would it kill you to keep your thoughts to yourself for 1 damn day? Read a book! 👀 #August1stTweetOutDay
I am proposing that August 1st be a “Tweet Out” day where blue voters take the day off from tweeting. Think of the revenue lost for Twitter - X if we did that. Best way to affect change with a billionaire is to hit them in the wallet. RT if you are with me.
#August1stTweetOutDay
Dear @GretaThunberg - We know you’re busy, but we have a whole list of people for you to roast next, starting with Trump. Sincerely, The World
I used to say ‘meat is murder’.
But after seeing animals at the Wuhan market cause a global pandemic; and mad cow disease; and the swine flu pandemic; then today seeing the first case of #monkeypox in US this year - it seems more appropriate to say ‘meat is mass suicide’.#vegan
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"People who spout 'Blockchain!' don’t understand the technology. This made me create Weaver’s Iron Law of Blockchain which is: When somebody says you can solve X with blockchain, they don’t understand X and you can ignore them." #weaversironlawofblockchain currentaffairs.org/2022/05/w…
Can someone PLEASE start a new political party? I am genuinely concerned for any country that has only one party, with no legitimate opposition.
teapawt.net/RightWingWatch/status/…
Yes our ‘to-do’ list is important. But it is also trivial. And yes, our goals and dreams are important. But also irrelevant. The key to productivity and happiness is how well you accept this paradox, and how well you learn to shift between these realities.
It's important to give your employees autonomy to do their work. Don't be a supervisor. Be a regular visor.
In case this conflict spreads and continues on for many years, I’d like to reluctantly go ahead and coin the phrase “The Warring 20s”
Commission-free trades (PFOF) is the compensation a broker gets for routing trades. If you agree that it creates unfair conditions at the expense of retail traders, you should consider joining this petition - Almost 50,000 signatures already! chng.it/CHRmRJ6G via @Change
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Monsieur @lucbesson, while Bowie was perfect for #Valerian opening, @JeffLynnesELO could work, too. A 2-minute trailer... vimeo.com/573780595 . Thanks
Imagine a future where doctors insert a small piece of the vaccine into a benign virus, and spreads it naturally through the population. 🦠 Now imagine all the anti-vaxxers having to wear masks and socially distance if they want to avoid the vaccine.
I just used @Thrinacia to build my own branded crowdfunding site, and felt compelled to tweet about how easy it was. Great product, great customer support; a rare and beautiful thing. Huge props to the whole team! #entrepreneur #crowdfunding
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We're super excited to launch Wozi on @ProductHunt ! Wozi is a plant-based flavor enhancer that makes healthy foods delicious. Snack guilt-free 😋!
Check us out and ask us anything.
producthunt.com/posts/wozi
As a bonus, check out @avichal's reaction from @pioneerdotapp's Demo Day