White House Innovation Fellow. Investor in over 400 startups.
Investing
Global early-stage investor for the last decade focused on pre-seed to series A. Having lived in six countries on four continents and traveled to over 75 countries, I’m deeply global and my investment interests reflect that. I love emerging markets and big ideas that improve lives, particularly in access to financial services, health, work, supply chain and logistics. I was a partner on Sand Hill Road at a $2 billion 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 into 400+ pre-seed companies over the last decade as the founder and managing partner.
13 years in venture capital
Invested over $50 million
400+ pre-seed investments
$500+ million in acquisitions
Speaking
I’ve delivered university convocations, annual lectures, and keynotes to audiences as large as 3,000 at places such as the World Bank, IMF, Drucker Forum, Huawei, Google, UBS, Deloitte, Visa, and Fidelity. 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 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 & Company Bracken Bower Prize for one of the best authors under age 35.
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, Nikkei, El Pais, The Paris Review, The Boston Review, and Veja.
