Social Capital Thesis (Sources)

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.

1. Gené Teare, Crunchbase, Global VC Report 2020
2. Gené Teare, Crunchbase, Global Venture Funding Hits All-Time Record High $125B In Q1 2021
3. D’Arcy Coolican, a16z, "the best version of every consumer product is the one that’s intrinsically social."
4. Pitchbook, US VC Valuation Reports
5. Ali Tameseb, Super Founders
6. Clark Judge, Sports Illustrated, How New England found Tom Brady
7. Jeff Kerr, CBS, Ranking the all-time GOAT
8. Berber Jin, Business Insider, Keith Rabois, Who are the founders
9. Semil Shah, Twitter, Kill Vibes
10. New York Times, Paul Graham, Zuckerberg
11. Cromwell Schubarth, SV Business Journal, YC boasts 25 unicorns
12. Leigh Gallagher, Wired, "Airbnb's Surprising Path to Y Combinator"
13. Richard Kerby, Equal Ventures; Elizabeth Edwards, Forbes, The Lack of Diversity in Venture Capital
14. James L. Knight Foundation; Elizabeth Edwards, Forbes, The Lack of Diversity in Venture Capital
15. Diversity VC, Rate my Investor, Diversity in US Startups Report
16. Rocío Lorenzo, Nicole Voigt, Miki Tsusaka, Matt Krentz, and Katie Abouzahr; Boston Consulting Group, How Diverse Leadership Teams Boost Innovation
17. Manasi Sakpal, Gartner, Diversity & Inclusion Build High-Performance Teams
18. David Rock and Heidi Grant, Harvard Business Review, Why Diverse Teams Are Smarter
19. Samir Kaul, The Twenty Minute VC, Twitter, "Cash on cash return"
20. New York Times, How a Reddit User and His Friends Helped Fuel the GameStop Frenzy
21. Chris Morris, Fortune, Reddit’s WallStreetBets has a new favorite stock
22. Wall Street Journal, Gimlet, Journal, To the Moon (audio podcast)
23. Kevin Kelly, 1,000 True Fans
24. Mr. Beast on YouTube
25. D'Arcy Coolican, a16z Podcast: The ‘Holy Grail’ of Social + Fintech
26. Alexis Ohanian, Bloomberg, Community
27. Fred Wilson, avc.com, Meme Investing
28. Jed Christensen, Seed-DB, Top Accelerators
29. Business Insider, Tribe Capital, Top 100 Seed Investors
30. Gené Teare, Crunchbase, Running the Numbers on YC
31. Collin West, Kauffman Fellows, Venture Returns With Abe Othman of AngelList
32. Justin Kan, Twitter, Entrepreneurship
33. Sam Altman, PG & Jessica, More YC-like things
34. Crunchbase, 2020 Diversity Report
35. Wall Street Journal, Keith Gill Drove the GameStop Reddit Mania