Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Everywhere Ventures. Former Google, Meta, Harvard, White House. Investor in 500 companies.
Investing
Global early-stage investor for the last 15 years. Having lived in six countries on four continents and traveled to 75+ countries, I’m global and my investment interests reflect that. I love emerging markets and big ideas that improve lives, particularly access to financial services, health, and improved logistics. I was a partner at a $2 billion Sand Hill Road fund prior to co-founding two early-stage venture capital firms, Everywhere Ventures and Two Culture Capital. Across these funds I’ve helped lead over 500 investments, and met well over 10,000 startups.
15 years in venture capital
Over $100 million in invested assets
500 pre-seed investments
$4+ billion in follow-on financing
Speaking
I’ve delivered university convocations, lectures, and keynotes to audiences as large as 3,000 at the World Bank Annual Meeting, Drucker Forum, Huawei, Google, UBS, Deloitte, Visa, Fidelity, and dozens of other companies and events. My keynotes since 2017 have focused on human skills in the era of AI, and why broad based Liberal Arts education actually prepares us better for a machine-led world than STEM alone. I’ve worked with university presidents at Stanford, Arizona, Utah Tech, Arkansas, Purdue, Wisconsin and Virginia Tech to help design educational programs that blend the humanities and technology, a theme of my book THE FUZZY AND THE TECHIE (Harper Business, 2017). The book was named a top 10 business book in Spain, a Financial Times Business Book of the Month, and a Finalist for the McKinsey & Co.’s Bracken Bower Prize.
Human Skills in the Era of AI
Future of Work
Venture Capital Trends
Humanities as Leadership
Writing
Former columnist at Forbes, Inc., and Quartz, and contributing author at MIT Press. My book, THE FUZZY AND THE TECHIE, has been published in 14 versions by Penguin Random House and Harper Collins. My work has been featured in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, New Yorker, The Guardian, Financial Times, PBS Newshour, as well as in commencement addresses by Fareed Zakaria and Anne-Marie Slaughter. I’ve been profiled in places such as the Times of India, El Pais, The Paris Review, The Boston Review, and Veja.
