I wrote an investment thesis based on social capital as part of the program for GoingVC Cohort 8. The thesis is not currently published for the public, but I do plan on sharing it in the near future. If you have not seen it and would like to, please contact me to request access.
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- Gené Teare, Crunchbase, Global Venture Funding Hits All-Time Record High $125B In Q1 2021
- D’Arcy Coolican, a16z, "the best version of every consumer product is the one that’s intrinsically social."
- Pitchbook, US VC Valuation Reports
- Ali Tameseb, Super Founders
- Clark Judge, Sports Illustrated, How New England found Tom Brady
- Jeff Kerr, CBS, Ranking the all-time GOAT
- Berber Jin, Business Insider, Keith Rabois, Who are the founders
- Semil Shah, Twitter, Kill Vibes
- New York Times, Paul Graham, Zuckerberg
- Cromwell Schubarth, SV Business Journal, YC boasts 25 unicorns
- Leigh Gallagher, Wired, "Airbnb's Surprising Path to Y Combinator"
- Richard Kerby, Equal Ventures; Elizabeth Edwards, Forbes, The Lack of Diversity in Venture Capital
- James L. Knight Foundation; Elizabeth Edwards, Forbes, The Lack of Diversity in Venture Capital
- Diversity VC, Rate my Investor, Diversity in US Startups Report
- Rocío Lorenzo, Nicole Voigt, Miki Tsusaka, Matt Krentz, and Katie Abouzahr; Boston Consulting Group, How Diverse Leadership Teams Boost Innovation
- Manasi Sakpal, Gartner, Diversity & Inclusion Build High-Performance Teams
- David Rock and Heidi Grant, Harvard Business Review, Why Diverse Teams Are Smarter
- Samir Kaul, The Twenty Minute VC, Twitter, "Cash on cash return"
- New York Times, How a Reddit User and His Friends Helped Fuel the GameStop Frenzy
- Chris Morris, Fortune, Reddit’s WallStreetBets has a new favorite stock
- Wall Street Journal, Gimlet, Journal, To the Moon (audio podcast)
- Kevin Kelly, 1,000 True Fans
- Mr. Beast on YouTube
- D'Arcy Coolican, a16z Podcast: The ‘Holy Grail’ of Social + Fintech
- Alexis Ohanian, Bloomberg, Community
- Fred Wilson, avc.com, Meme Investing
- Jed Christensen, Seed-DB, Top Accelerators
- Business Insider, Tribe Capital, Top 100 Seed Investors
- Gené Teare, Crunchbase, Running the Numbers on YC
- Collin West, Kauffman Fellows, Venture Returns With Abe Othman of AngelList
- Justin Kan, Twitter, Entrepreneurship
- Sam Altman, PG & Jessica, More YC-like things
- Crunchbase, 2020 Diversity Report
- Wall Street Journal, Keith Gill Drove the GameStop Reddit Mania
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