Vision
I have perpetual and deep frustration with the way most things function around us. This draws me to founders who are solving meaningful problems. A problem may be meaningful to one person and irrelevant for others. Solving a problem that seems meaningful but has no usefulness is hallucination. Customer adoption is the true impact.
“If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” ~ Steve Jobs
Passage
Learning. Methods. Relationships. Founders can make good use of these resources while building impactful companies. These are a result of two contributing foundations. My experience as an operator through five exits and a high-growth public company. And building helpful community groups. The aggregation of these experiences and relationships compounds the process of company building:
My focus is on enabling with the belief that the founders and their teams create the ultimate value. Everyone else who gets associated must have done some karma!
"Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration." ~ Thomas Edison
Investing
People with a good heart continue to have a profound impact on my life. All investments have emerged from these relationships and my community groups. My vision is the guiding principle for my investing. Investments are agnostic to stage, location and industry. Conventional investing parameters carry lower relevance.
Stage
Pre-Seed to Pre-IPO. Been through this journey multiple times. Founders can leverage my resources for company building across these stages. Current investments are in funding rounds from $900,000 to $100 million. Post-money valuations varied between $5 million to under a billion.
Location
More and more founders continue to leverage their roots and networks. This has led to the decoupling of startup and investor location. And my investments reflect that. Over 70% of my current investments are outside the San Francisco Bay Area. The average distance between my work and investments is 1,775 miles.
Industry
I invest across all industries in technology and non-technology startups. Software, hardware, physical products, materials and services. My classification lens focuses on how the startup impacts elements from these categories:
Good startup outcomes are simple but not easy. Achieving the Vision is through the Passage of monomaniacal execution.
Let's get-together to build!
I have perpetual and deep frustration with the way most things function around us. This draws me to founders who are solving meaningful problems. A problem may be meaningful to one person and irrelevant for others. Solving a problem that seems meaningful but has no usefulness is hallucination. Customer adoption is the true impact.
“If you are working on something exciting that you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.” ~ Steve Jobs
Passage
Learning. Methods. Relationships. Founders can make good use of these resources while building impactful companies. These are a result of two contributing foundations. My experience as an operator through five exits and a high-growth public company. And building helpful community groups. The aggregation of these experiences and relationships compounds the process of company building:
- Contextual Help
- Targeted Advocacy
- Operational Rigor
- Hiring Talent
- Customer Acquisition
- Raising Money
- Potential Exits
My focus is on enabling with the belief that the founders and their teams create the ultimate value. Everyone else who gets associated must have done some karma!
"Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration." ~ Thomas Edison
Investing
People with a good heart continue to have a profound impact on my life. All investments have emerged from these relationships and my community groups. My vision is the guiding principle for my investing. Investments are agnostic to stage, location and industry. Conventional investing parameters carry lower relevance.
Stage
Pre-Seed to Pre-IPO. Been through this journey multiple times. Founders can leverage my resources for company building across these stages. Current investments are in funding rounds from $900,000 to $100 million. Post-money valuations varied between $5 million to under a billion.
Location
More and more founders continue to leverage their roots and networks. This has led to the decoupling of startup and investor location. And my investments reflect that. Over 70% of my current investments are outside the San Francisco Bay Area. The average distance between my work and investments is 1,775 miles.
Industry
I invest across all industries in technology and non-technology startups. Software, hardware, physical products, materials and services. My classification lens focuses on how the startup impacts elements from these categories:
- Human Life: Work, Home, Financial, Personal, Relationships, Social, Cultural and Civic
- Human Ecosystem: Biotic Components, Abiotic Components, Material Flow and Energy Flow
Good startup outcomes are simple but not easy. Achieving the Vision is through the Passage of monomaniacal execution.
Let's get-together to build!