Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Everywhere Ventures. Former Google, Meta, Stanford, White House. Investor in 500 companies.
Investing
Global early-stage investor for the last 15 years. Venture capital means chasing frontier markets, and my interests reflect that, from investing in space and Bitcoin in 2014 to authoring a book on the centrality of human skills in AI in 2017. 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 that have raised billions in capital.
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, IMF, Drucker Forum, Huawei, Google, UBS, Deloitte, Visa, Fidelity, and dozens of other companies. My keynotes since 2017 have focused on human skills in the era of AI, a topic that has become increasingly prescient. I’ve worked with university presidents at Stanford, Arizona, Utah Tech, Arkansas, Purdue, Wisconsin and Virginia Tech to design educational programs that blend the humanities and technology, the 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 commencements 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.
