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Jul 20, 2022 • 50min

Smart Humans: Republic’s Kendrick Nguyen on equity crowdfunding and the future of crypto

Kendrick Nguyen is CEO of Republic, an investment platform connecting tech startups and blockchain projects with global investors. Prior to Republic, he served as general counsel of AngelList and Fellow of Stanford University’s Center for Corporate Governance. He is a founding adviser to NOW Ventures and CoinList, an ICO platform. An immigrant from Vietnam, Kendrick has a strong interest in improving access to capital for underserved entrepreneurs in the US and beyond.
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Jul 7, 2022 • 41min

Smart Humans: StartEngine’s Howard Marks on alts over stocks, understanding the 1031 exchange technique in real estate, and the democratization of venture capital.

Before co-founding StartEngine, Howard co-founded Activision and was the Chairman of Activision Studios from 1991 until 1997. As a former Board Member and Executive Vice-President of video-game giant Activision, he and a partner took control in 1991 and turned the ailing company into the $37 billion market cap video game industry leader, selling millions of games. Howard was also the founder and CEO of Acclaim Games, a publisher of online games that was later sold to The Walt Disney Company. Howard is the 2015 “Treasure of Los Angeles” recipient, awarded for his work to transform Los Angeles into a leading technology city, and a member of LA Mayor Eric Garcetti’s technology council. He is bilingual and a triple national of the United States, United Kingdom, and France.
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Jun 30, 2022 • 59min

Smart Humans: Jason Calacanis on angel investing, the state of venture capital, and trusting the process

Jason Calacanis is an entrepreneur, angel investor, author and podcaster.  Jason is the Founder and CEO of LAUNCH and Inside.com. As a prolific podcaster, Jason hosts All-In alongside Chamath Palihapitiya, David Sacks, and David Friedberg as well as This Week in Startups. Through private funds, the LAUNCH accelerator, and his public angel syndicate, Jason has invested in startups including Uber, Robinhood, Wealthfront, and Trello. Prior, Jason served as general manager of Netscape, Entrepreneur in Action at Sequoia, and founded numerous media companies during the dot-com era including Weblogs and VentureReporter.net. 
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Jun 22, 2022 • 1h 4min

Smart Humans: QED's Frank Rotman on spotting unicorns, building Capital One, and diversified alts investing.

Frank Rotman is a Founding Partner and the Chief Investment Officer of QED Investors. His investment focus has been on emerging next-generation fintech and proptech companies. Frank was one of the earliest analysts hired into Capital One and he spent almost 13 years building and managing many of the company’s business units, credit organizations and operational areas. Frank graduated from the University of Virginia with degrees in Applied Mathematics (B.S.) and Systems Engineering (M.S.). He writes prolifically on Twitter as @fintechjunkie and posts additional content frequently on qedinvestors.com and fintechjunkie.com.
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Jun 15, 2022 • 34min

Smart Humans: Yieldstreet’s Milind Mehere on investing for yield and navigating a volatile market

Milind Mehere is an award-winning entrepreneur with a track record of building large scalable businesses and creating new product categories.  Milind is the Founder and CEO of Yieldstreet, a next-generation digital investment platform reimagining the way wealth is created by providing access to private markets previously reserved only for institutions and the ultra-wealthy. Yieldstreet was named Financial Times's 12th Fastest Growing Company in the US, and for two consecutive years, Yieldstreet was named one of the top 50 Fastest-Growing Companies by Inc. Previously, Milind Co-founded and scaled Yodle (an ad-tech platform for SMBs) to $200M+ in revenue and 1,400 employees. Yodle was ranked four times in the Inc. 500 list and was acquired by Web.com for $342M in 2016. Milind was named an Innovation Fellow at Columbia University’s Lang Center, and is an international keynote speaker, having spoken at Forbes, Bloomberg, Cheddar, LendIt, Citi Bank, Goldman, Columbia, and Harvard among others.
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Jun 1, 2022 • 31min

Smart Humans: Propel(x) Swati Chaturvedi on investing into deeptech, life sciences, and biotech

Swati Chaturvedi is the co-founder and CEO of Propel(x) – an investment platform that enables accredited investors worldwide to invest in alternatives, including investments in startups, hedge funds and venture capital funds. Ms. Chaturvedi has a long history of working in the alternative investments space and is the founder of the MIT Alumni Angel Investors group. She founded and led the group 2013–2015, and continues to be on the screening committee. Prior to starting Propel(x), Swati has worked as an investment professional at Exigen Capital private equity, Siemens Venture Capital and Temasek Holdings. She has also been a management consultant working across a variety of industries. Ms. Chaturvedi holds an MBA degree from the Sloan School of Management, an M.S. degree from MIT, an M.S. degree from UC Berkeley, and a Bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.
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May 25, 2022 • 39min

Smart Humans: Skybridge's Anthony Scaramucci on investing into alts, navigating a bear market, and staying long bitcoin.

Anthony Scaramucci is the founder and managing partner of SkyBridge, a global alternative investment firm, and founder and chairman of SALT, a global thought leadership forum and venture studio.  Prior to founding SkyBridge in 2005, Scaramucci co-founded investment partnership Oscar Capital Management, which was sold to Neuberger Berman in 2001. Earlier, he worked in Private Wealth Management at Goldman Sachs & Co.   In 2022, Scaramucci was ranked #47 in Cointelegraph’s Top 100 Influencers in Crypto and Blockchain. In 2016, he was ranked #85 in  Worth Magazine’s  Power 100: The 100 Most Powerful People in Global Finance. In 2011, he received Ernst & Young’s New York Financial Services “Entrepreneur of the Year” Award. Anthony is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and a board member of the Federal Enforcement Homeland Security Foundation. He is the author of five books.   Scaramucci served on President Donald J. Trump’s 16-person Presidential Transition Team Executive Committee, and in 2017 briefly served as Chief Strategy Officer of the Export-Import (EXIM) Bank and White House Communications Director.   Scaramucci, a native of Long Island, New York, holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Tufts University and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.
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May 18, 2022 • 30min

Smart Humans: The Fund's Jenny Fielding on angel investing, believing in yourself, and innovation going global.

Jenny Fielding is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at The Fund, a global founder community and pre-seed venture capital fund that has invested in over 200 companies. Previously, Jenny spent 7.5 years as the Managing Director at Techstars where she was the first check into a portfolio of companies with a current market cap of over $12 Billion. Jenny is a 2x founder, recovering lawyer, Kauffman Fellow and adjunct professor at Columbia University.
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May 11, 2022 • 42min

Smart Humans: Betterment’s Eli Broverman on building a billion-dollar FinTech unicorn and investing in the future.

Eli is the Co-Founder of Betterment, a robo-advisor managing over $30 billion of investments. After leaving a career in corporate law in 2007, he served as the company’s co-founding COO and President for 10 years to build the largest independent robo-advisor in the U.S.  As a board member, Eli continues to steward Betterment’s growth while advising groundbreaking companies such as Masterworks and fueling the growth of early-stage FinTech startups including Rally and Sweater Ventures as an investor. In 2020, he co-founded Treasury, a founder-led, founder-first VC alongside Acorns founder, Jeff Cruttenden.
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May 4, 2022 • 42min

Smart Humans: FarmTogether’s Artem Milinchuk on farmland as an asset class and hedging against inflation.

Artem has 10+ years of finance experience in food, agriculture, and farmland. Prior to founding FarmTogether, Artem was CFO at Full Harvest, a B2B platform for buying and selling produce. He also previously worked at Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, E&Y, and PwC. Artem holds an MBA from The Wharton School.

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