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Managing Partner, Head of Venture Investing
Advice for founders
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Specializes in
Tokenized and decentralized financial markets, blockchain-based payments, yield, real-money gaming, blockchain infrastructure, tokenized capital formation
Cares about
Working with extraordinary founders with limitless ambition aiming to disrupt traditional industries.
Education
Computer Science Engineering, University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering & Applied Science
Experience
Product Manager and Co-Founder of Apple Music Group, Co-Founder MyPlay, CEO eMusic, Partner at Venrock for 13 years
Notable Achievements
Led Series A/B rounds of Dollar Shave Club (acquired by Unilever for $1B), investments in Veda, Ether.Fi, Li.Fi, Hello Moon, co-founded Apple Music, 18 years of venture investing.
Interests
Drumming, DJing, tennis, fitness, family, travel, learning
Preferred channels for outreach
Warm intros are always best — surely we know some of the same people?
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Cross-chain liquidity aggregator for financial instutions
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