The Venture Brief

Topics:Developing the earliest types of games and turning a hobby into a job.VR is growing its share of the entertainment market and the future of it.The main mistake game founders make relating to marketingThe future of gaming platformsMain hurdles facing VR gaming.When to push the gas pedal in developing games for the VR market.How VCs help in the gaming marketTommy Palm is the co-founder, CEO, and guru of visual computing at Resolution Games, a company backed by Creandum, GV, and Initial capital, building a world-class catalog of titles that brings players into the richest VR and AR worlds possible.Tommy is a long-time Swedish games industry veteran. He is a five-time founder and his company, fabrication games, was acquired by King Digital Entertainment in 2012 to lead their mobile game development division. There, Tommy led the development of Candy Crush that has 2.7Bn downloads and it places fourth on the list of most downloaded apps on AppStore ever. Tommy also founded Stugan, Jadestone, The Game Trail and consulted on games development since he first started programming for Commodore 64 in 1986.Website: https://www.resolutiongames.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/tommy_palm?lang=en Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tommypalm/?originalSubdomain=se Books:Sapiens Graphic NovelEndurance: Shackletocks Incredible Voyage

Topics:The best decision-making hack I have ever heard.The mindset required to get through Navy SEAL training.Applying military strategy and tactics to business.Why ocean exploration must be done and the challenges to overcomeA walk-through of the patented Terradepth solutionBalancing and blending domain expertise with outsider perspectives.Handling disagreements as Co-CEOsWhy we are not our experiences.Today, we have a special episode because we are interviewing both of the founders, also ex. Navy SEALS, and co-CEOs of Terradepth, Judson Kauffman and Joe Wolfel. Terradepth is a company aiming to capture comprehensive data from the world's ocean on an unprecedented scale, resolution, and price point.Joe was previously the managing partner at Exbellum, a boutique management consulting firm dedicated to solving unique and complex human capital problems. Prior to Exbellum, Joe held leadership roles at the McChrystal Group, a leadership think tank and consulting group, as well as Synexxus Inc., a rapid engineering and manufacturing company focused on the defense space. Prior to these roles, Joe served as a Navy SEAL, conducting multiple deployments through the Middle East and Africa.Judson was also a Navy SEAL, alongside Joe. He deployed three times in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom earning multiple combat distinguishments. After his military career, Judson was selected to lead the US Navy’s Special Operations and Special Warfare Mentor Program to support recruiting and selection efforts nationwide. Following this role, he shifted into business and became the Vice President of Product Development at Lightbulb Innovation Group in Nashville, Tennessee.Website: https://www.terradepth.com/  Joe Wolfel LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-wolfel-aa76a054/Judson Kauffman LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/judson-k-01468131/ 

Topics:Starting a microgravity research companyHow microgravity is achievedVomit comets and drop towersDeveloping stem cells in space.Optimizing the space station supply chainThe next stage of space manufacturingTesting pills for long-duration flightsThe biggest challenges to making manufacturing in space widely adopted.Space manufacturing in 10 years.Twyman is the co-founder and CEO of Space Tango, a company that manufactures products in space that create transformational solutions that cannot be attained on earth.Twyman went to the University of Kentucky where he got involved with the Space Program which eventually turned into a job. At Kentucky Space, he was a Program Manager for the KySat-2 CubeSat program and was also the lead engineer on KS 5 Regenerative Medicine Experiment that was sent to the ISS in 2014. From there, he founded Space Tango which started small but has grown into the leading player in the on-orbit R&D and Manufacturing industry with 19 missions launched, 94 payloads delivery, and 165 experiments conducted in microgravity conditions.Website: https://spacetango.com/Twyman Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/twyman-clements-88263642/Movies: Interstellar, Apollo 13

Topics:Defining impact investing.Going from being a natural pessimist to a willful optimist.The generational divide and how the two invest.Sucking carbon out of the atmosphere to create diamonds. investing in companies where Impact and financials are closely interconnected.Showing up every single day and what that means. Peter is a partner at Social Impact capital, a VC investing in entrepreneurs that are building companies solving the world’s most challenging and entrenched problems. Prior to joining Social Impact Capital, Peter was the Head of Business Development at RCI, investment technology and alternative lending platform backed by 8VC and Soros Fund Management. Prior to that, Peter created an early-stage AI venture capital firm focused on investing in companies using machine learning in high-impact areas of application. He is also the founder of Kalytix Partners, a specialist strategy and management consultancy for institutional investors that was later acquired. In addition to his work, Peter has led research on impact finance and strategic investment at Stanford University, collaborating with Planet Heritage and White Sand Investor Group. His publications include Sovereign Development Funds: The Governance and Management of Strategic Investment Institutions, which was published in The Oxford Handbook of Sovereign Wealth Funds in 2018, and the paper called Impact investments: a call for (re)orientation which was published just a couple of weeks back in SN Business and Economics…. Website: https://social-impact-capital.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pbruceclark/Twitter: https://twitter.com/pbcolossus?lang=enInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/courtjoker/?hl=enBook: https://www.amazon.com/Death-Her-Hands-Ottessa-Moshfegh/dp/1984879359Impact Investments Paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43546-020-00033-6

Topics:Getting sued 20+ times by a single competitor.The once in a lifetime constellation of founders at Delivery HeroGrowing through acquisitions.Entrepreneurial partners at CavalryLinking your to-do to your calendarWhy aspiring entrepreneurs should work in product rolesUnsustainable growth - how to look at the quality of the growth of a startupThe two most common mistakes entrepreneurs makeClaude Ritter is co-founder and managing partner at Cavalry Ventures, primarily focusing on the marketplace and SaaS business models. Claude co-founded Book a tiger, a digital facility services company that he ran as the CEO up until the sale of the business to the rival Helpling in early 2020. Since its launch in 2014, Book a tiger has raised more than $40m in venture capital and operates a network of >500 employed cleaners as well as more than 100 other facility services companies that partner with it.Prior to Book a tiger, in 2010, he co-founded the Berlin-based company Delivery Hero and served 4 years as the chief product officer (CPO). Delivery Hero is the world's largest food-ordering network with a presence in 40+ markets and in 2017 it went public on the Frankfurt stock exchange with a valuation of roughly $5bn (DHER).Before Delivery Hero, Claude spent 5 years as CEO of The NetCircle, a web company that develops and operates large-scale community websites. He also co-founded DUQI, a Chinese real-time photo-sharing site, and Aionics, a web agency based in Switzerland.Book recommendation: https://www.amazon.com/Hard-Thing-About-Things-Building/dp/0062273205Email: claude@cavalry.vcWebsite: https://autoexec.vc/  /  https://cavalry.vc/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/critter/?originalSubdomain=deTwitter: https://twitter.com/clauderitter/

Ashley is a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners and a member of the consumer investing team. Prior to joining Lightspeed, Ashley worked as a Senior Associate Consultant at Bain and as a Category Manager at Thumbtack. She is a graduate of Duke University (BA) and Stanford GSB (MBA).At Lightspeed, Ashley is part of one of the world’s leading venture capital firms that has a portfolio where one-third of the portfolio companies exited through acquisition or IPO. Since being founded in 1999, Lightspeed has invested in more than 400 companies, including the likes of AppDynamics, MuleSoft, Calm, Cameo, Carta, Epic Games, Grubhub, Snap, and Stitch Fix, among many incredible others.Topics:Tools for truly understanding your customersWhy sometimes listening to your customers can lead you down the wrong pathHow to go about building a prototypeScreening for founder-market-fitWhy most entrepreneurs do not find product-market-fit.Email: ashley@lsvp.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashleybrasier/Medium: https://medium.com/@ashley.brasierTwitter: https://twitter.com/ashleybrasierBook: https://www.amazon.com/Playing-Big-Practical-Wisdom-Create/dp/1592409601

Topics: Becoming a true space faring peopleRecycling things in spaceHow manufacturing in space differs from manufacturing on earth.The technology that need to come further to build more things in space.Learning from the spider to assemble things in space.Using asteroids for raw materials in the future.The hype around space in the last five years.Using gene-editing to adapt ourselves to a space envioronmentHabitats in space.How other industries are connecting space...Rob Hoyt is the CEO and Chief Scientist of Tethers Unlimited, a company he co-founded in 1994 which he has built it into a multi-$M company that is pioneering advances in small satellite technologies as well as space manufacturing and assembly capabilities.Dr. Hoyt himself has worked on a variety of advanced space technologies, including plasma thruster propulsion, solar thermal propulsion, electrostatic antennas, space debris mitigation technologies, and, of course, space tethers. If you want to read about Dr. Hoyt's inventions in detail, they are all listed on his Wikipedia page.Show recommendation: The ExpanseWebsite: https://www.tethers.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robhoyt/

Topics:Building Tel-Aviv university's investment vehicleValuation in the early stages.Making use of academic resources on campusAnd building a full ecosystem that entrepreneurs gravitate towards.Nimrod Cohen is the Managing Partner at TAU Ventures  - Tel Aviv University's investment vehicle. Nimrod is a serial entrepreneur and investor. He was previously a partner at Plus Ventures and has made more than 60 investments in the last five years in companies such as Bringg, HouseParty (acquired by Epic Games), Cimagine (Acquired by Snapchat), YOTPO, and more. He is an experienced mentor and judge, participating in numerous startup programs, events, and organizations around the world.Nirmod also had a fruitful and successful career as a basketball player and now serves as the Chairman of Hapoel Ramat-Gan basketball team.Series Recommendation: The Last DanceWebsite: https://www.tauventures.co.il/ LinkedIn: Nimrod Cohen

Topics: The problem with exchanging time for moneyHow Divvy was born from a frustration of expense reportsWhat 6 months of fleshing out an idea looks likeWhy pitching your friends is a bad idea.Building the first real-time expense management platformHow unconventional methods can go a very long wayCustomer acquisition strategies and what worked for DivvyWhy you shouldn't hire C-level executives early on and focus on niche experts.Why starting a company is a lot like starting a new sportHow Alex is still doing demo for demo's at DivvyAnd finally, why shouldn't read business books from cover to cover.Alex Bean is the co-founder and Chief Business Officer of Divvy, the #1 corporate card & expense management platform that has raised over $417M dollars and was last valued at $1.6Bn. The company was started in 2016 so this has been done in 5 years which is quite astonishing and today they have 350 employees and 9,000 customers all over the U.S.Prior to Divvy, Alex ran sales and marketing for companies such as Surge, Fresh Consulting, and Lucky Scooter Parts. He's got a bachelor's degree in Global Studies from Brigham Young University.Recommended Books: Endurance, Over the Edge of the World, Into Africa, Shadow Divers, Strong Fathers, Strong DaughtersWebsite: https://getdivvy.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexbean/ 

Topics:How you go from being a lawyer to pioneering the medical cannabis industry.The interplay of the drug and the therapy in psychedelicsWhat psychedelic-assisted therapies look in practice for maximum effectsThe black swan event for humanity and how we can solve the mental health problem.How healthy people can benefit from psychedelics.Why global adoption of psychedelics is just a matter of time.The lifetime value of psychedelics and how insurance players will be impacted.Building the infrastructure for the future of psychedelic therapeutics.Ronan Levy is the co-founder and CEO of Field Trip Health (CSE:FTRP), a company addressing mental health disorders through treatment clinics, offering psychedelic-assisted therapies, and the development of psychedelic medicine. Concurrent with his work at Field Trip, he is a partner at Grassfed Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on the cannabis and biotech industries and is Chief Strategy Officer and Member of the Board of Directors for Trait Biosciences Inc., a leading biotech company in the hemp and cannabis industries. He is also a pioneer in the medical cannabis industry, having co-founded Canadian Cannabis Clinics and CanvasRx Inc., the latter of which was acquired by Aurora Cannabis Inc. (NYSE:ACB) in 2016, after which he served as Senior Vice President, Business and Corporate Affairs for Aurora. A lawyer by training, Ronan started his career as a corporate lawyer at Blake, Cassels Graydon LLP, and Legal Counsel at CTVglobemedia Inc. (now Bell Media Inc.) He holds a Juris Doctor and a Bachelor of Commerce degree, both from the University of Toronto.Read the Futurama here: https://venturebrief.substack.com/p/1-futurama-psychedelicsLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronanlevy/?originalSubdomain=caTwitter: https://twitter.com/RonanDLevyWebsite: https://www.fieldtriphealth.com/

Today, we are talking about:Backcasting and bringing the future to life.Using storytelling to unify an organization.Working with NATO to imagine the future of warfare.Creating the Northstar and the dangers of dystopian sci-fiYour datasphere profile and how we will interact with other's dataspheres in the future.The future of mood control and monitoring.Ari Popper is the Founder and CEO of SciFutures, an award-winning innovation house that uses science fiction prototyping to create preferred futures for Fortune 500 companies and large organizations like Visa, Hershey's, Ford, and NATO.Prior to Scifutures, Ari was the president of a market research company called System One. Looking to make a career change, in 2011, Ari had an epiphany in a science fiction writing class at UCLA where he realized that one could harness the power of science fiction storytelling in business to transform companies and give them a much better chance of inventing disruptive technologies and solutions themselves.SciFutures' mission is to help create inspiring and insightful visions of the future that results in meaningful innovation and positive change.Over the years, SciFutures has written thousands of stories for its clients. They have over 300 science fiction writers worldwide, including some Hugo Award Winners, who write for them to help their clients solve their innovation and transformation challenges.Website: https://www.scifutures.com/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ari-popper-%E2%93%A5-35ba042/Books:(1) Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind(2) Exhalation: Stories

Topics:Evernote and how Tsune got involved.The difference in mindset between Japanese entrepreneurs vs Americans.The investment in Asana - organizational alignmentHow WiL manages to get into the most competitive roundsPromoting and handling disagreement within firmsTsune Shirote is a partner at World Innovation Lab, a VC firm focused on mid-to-late stage investments in the U.S. and Japan. Tsune led World Innovation Lab's investment in Asana, Auth0, Kong, Mural, mmhmm, and TransferWise. He also actively worked on the investments in Automation Anywhere and BirdEye.Prior to joining WiL, Tsune was the VP of Business Operations and Strategy at Evernote, where he spearheaded analytics and was instrumental in improving the company’s revenue growth and financial stability through a series of successful monetization efforts.He has also worked for Blue Ridge Capital and T. Rowe Price analyzing publicly traded internet companies and earlier in his career, Tsune was an investment banker at Lehman Brothers that later became Barclays Capital.Tsune holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA in Economics from the University of Tokyo.Email: tsune@wilab.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/tsuneshirota?lang=en Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tsuneshirota/ Book: https://amzn.to/2LRvjia

Topics:Starting the first private company that could biosynthesize psilocybin in yeastIntroducing psychedelics and some of the science behind it.The challenges of raising funds for a cannabis company and what changed.How YC was able to add value for BioTech company.Why big pharma is not moving into the psychedelic space.What the biggest challenge in the psychedelics market today.Where psychedelics will be in 2030Sher Ali Butt is the co-founder and CEO of CB Therapeutics, a company focused on producing high-value molecules, compounds, and rare ingredients from simple feedstock. CB Therapeutics' experience in synthetic genomics, bio-engineering, and cellular production processes have made them the first company in the world to produce (and file IP for) natural tryptamines and their analogs, in yeast. This process allows them to produce a broad range of compounds efficiently, sustainably, faster, at greater yields, and with higher purity and consistency than any other competitive platforms. Sher was formerly the co-founder and CSO of a Laboratory testing firm and has worked for a number of leading pharmaceutical and wellness product companies. Sher has a B.S. in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology from UC Davis and an MBA from the Rady School of Management, UC San Diego. As of today, CB Therapeutics' team consists out of 19 employees, including 7 doctorate degree (PhD) holders and 9 research associates. This team has advanced our proprietary yeasts formulation and production processes to become the market leader in the development of novel molecules.Read the Futurama here: https://venturebrief.substack.com/p/1-futurama-psychedelicsLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sherbutt/Twitter: https://twitter.com/cbthera?lang=enWebsite: https://www.cbthera.com/

Topics: The major behavioral problems within companies.How much weight to put on the behavioral fit in recruiting.How to deliver feedback to team members in the right way.How to pitch VCs given their behavioral profiles.And in general, how to better understand people who are different from you.Thomas Erikson is a Swedish behavioral expert, active lecturer, and bestselling author. For more than fifteen years he has been traveling all over Europe delivering lectures and seminars in Swedish and English to executives and managers at a wide range of companies, including IKEA, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Volvo, and KIA Motors. Surrounded by Idiots has been a Swedish runaway bestseller since it was first published in 2014. It has sold over 2.5 million copies worldwide, of which nearly 1 million copies have been sold in Sweden alone, and it has been translated into 42 languages. Links: Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomaseriksonmanagementspec/Email: info@thomaserikson.comWebsite: https://www.surroundedbyidiots.com/en/ Book: Feel Fear... And Do it Anyway by Dr. Susan Jeffers

Topics:Investing in startups straight out of college.Starting NOWO and how the FinTech field has evolved since.How to think about the initial phase of the startup journey and measure your progress.Group recognition to support.Get comfortable hearing that you are taking too much risk and that you will fail and balance that with humility and strong opinions loosely held.Vision is far more common than a love for the process.Tabulated investment summaries and the dangers of isolating variables.Emmet King is the co-founder, partner, and CIO of J12, an early-stage investor + angel-network- hybrid investing in disruptive early-stage companies in the Nordics.Emmet graduated from SSE in 2014, and in the same year, co-founded NOWO, a FinTech app enabling long-term savings through seamless integration in one's day-to-day life. That same year, he also co-founded J12 which today is one of the most active early-stage funds in Sweden. In 2015, he co-founded DHS Venture Partners which is an exclusive network for Stockholm School of Economics alumni with the mission to support the next generation of great entrepreneurs.Book recommendation: Meditations by Marcus AureliusThe Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf DobelliPresence by Amy Cuddy Website: https://www.j12ventures.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmetking/

Topics:How Venture Capital has strayed from its roots and what to do about it. Investing human capital and what that sort of investment would look like in practice. How to build new ventures for corporates. What true market validation looks like. Three major misconceptions around entrepreneurship. Joachim Vandaele is the Founding Partner of Wright Partners, a firm building ventures for and with corporates. He also serves as a Managing Partner at Zephyr Ventures, a fund acting as an operating partner for startups and scale-ups at the verge of taking off. He started his career as a risk manager but eventually got tired of constantly thinking of everything that could go wrong. He went on to join Finalyse, a boutique consulting firm, as a Partner. He later took on the role as CEO for Trusted Family, a company providing technology and advisory solutions to HNW family businesses and their investment offices; and the headed Found8, Singapore’s largest community of entrepreneurs and innovation leaders. He is an EiR, lecturer, and director for the startup bootcamp at INSEAD and today, he is focused on corporate venture building with Wright Partners.Links:Couples that Work: https://amzn.to/38gjKbNThe Art of Possibility: https://amzn.to/38ePrSWDeep Work: https://amzn.to/2LOGAzNLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joachimvandaele/?originalSubdomain=sgEmail: joachim@wright.partners

Topics:Learnings from Genesis Partners and spinning out F2 CapitalSnapping out of a life of mindless decisions.What founders really want from VCs: chemistry and speedTaking expert advice with a grain of salt.Barak Rabinowitz is the managing partner at F2 Capital, a specialized seed-stage venture capital fund backing Israeli founders at the junction of big data, artificial intelligence, and connectivity.Prior to F2, Barak was a GP at Genesis Partners which is one of the most established early-stage venture funds in Israel whose IV fund got acquired by Insight Venture Partners. Barak was previously the CEO of Win, a social game company backed by bwin.party Digital Entertainment. Prior to Win, Barak was the CEO of social game company Mytopia, acquired by 888 Holdings. He was also the co-founder and CEO of Amuso, a social game company whose assets were acquired by the BBC Worldwide. Barak started his career at Morgan Stanley before joining Yahoo! in 2006. He has a BA from Georgetown and an MBA from Harvard.Barak runs a podcast where he interviews founders with incredible stories. Check it out here: https://www.f2vc.com/founder-storiesBook recommendation: How to Win Friends and Influence PeoplePodcast: Website: https://www.f2vc.com/Email: barakf2vc@gmail.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/barak2007/?originalSubdomain=il

Topics:Learnings from 10 years at Patagonia and the 5P framework.Chasing fundamental problems and purpose-driven businesses.Investing in breakthrough technologies at the cusp of commercialization.Screening for the authentically motivated entrepreneur.Vishal is the co-founder of Obvious Ventures a venture firm investing in world positive technology companies across three themes: Sustainable Systems, Healthy Living & People Power. Some of their portfolio companies include Medium, Proterra, Beyond Meat, VSCO, and Gusto.Most recently Vishal was the founding partner of SONG Investment Advisors, an India- based fund backed by Soros Economic Development Fund, Omidyar Network, and Google. He also served as a senior executive at Steve Case’s Revolution and as Chief Strategy Officer at Patagonia, a leading multichannel retailer of outdoor and active lifestyle products in the US.Book recommendations: Built to Last by Jim Collins - https://www.amazon.com/Built-Last-Successful-Visionary-Essentials/dp/0060516402Small is Beautiful by E.F Schumacher - https://www.amazon.com/Small-Beautiful-Economics-Mattered-Perennial/dp/0061997765Let my People Go Surfing - https://www.amazon.com/Let-People-Surfing-Education-Businessman/dp/0143037838Website: https://obvious.com/Email: vishal@obvious.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishalvasishth/Twitter: https://twitter.com/vishalvasishth?lang=en

Topics:Intro to autonomous enterprises.How Turbotic got $3M at the seed stage.A world in which 70% of the enterprise functions are automated.Enterprise singularity.Exponential vs. linear thinking and Singularity University.The importance of mixing disciplines.  Martial arts and sword fighting. Theodore Bergqvist is the CEO and Co-Founder of Turbotic, a company aiming to enable the world´s companies to be self-operating using AI and Automation technologies.Theodore has built and sold 5 companies over his career and is one of the few people to have ever done so in Sweden. He is the founder of Intelligence Research and Consulting, a consulting company he started just 3 years into his career that was later acquired by Jupiter Communications. After IRC, he founded Paradox Interactive, a leading global developer and publisher of games that was later sold to Splitan. Moreover, he is the founder of Gamersgate, a digital distribution platform, and also the founder of Nordic Native, a transactional platform for e-commerce. He spent the last 5 years deep in AI, heading the Data and Analytics division of Ericsson. He got his bachelor's degree at Stockholm University and recently graduated from Singularity University's famous executive and exponential innovation program.Turbotic Website: https://turbotic.com/Turbotic LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/turbotic/Article Mentioned: The Rise of Exponential Individuals Dancing Guy Original Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA8z7f7a2PkDerek Sivers Ted Talk “How to Start a Movement”: https://bit.ly/3lHZdBTThe Medici Effect by Frans Johansson: https://www.amazon.com/Medici-Effect-Elephants-Epidemics-Innovation/dp/1515959341Musashi Novel: https://www.amazon.com/Musashi-Epic-Novel-Samurai-Era/dp/156836427XLinkedIn: Theodore Bergqvist

Topics: Acquiring expert skill in 3-6 months.Founding a tech company with zero experience.How a 34-year-old without any VC experience grew to $1.3Bn under management in 3 years.Starting the Uber of South America.The key insights behind Fifth Wall. Autonomous vehicles and the impact on real estate and the changing landscape.Strategic thinking.Brendan Wallace is the co-founder and Managing Partner at Fifth Wall which is the largest venture capital firm focused on the global real estate industry and property technology for the Built World.Prior to starting Fifth Wall, Brendan co-founded Identified, a workforce optimization data and analytics company that raised $33 million of venture funding and was acquired by Workday in 2014. He also co-founded Cabify, the largest ridesharing service in Latin America, and has been an active angel investor, making more than 60 investments in companies including Bonobos, Dollar Shave Club, Lyft, SpaceX, Clutter, and Philz Coffee.Brendan started his career at Goldman Sachs in the real estate, hospitality, and gaming group before joining Blackstone’s real estate private equity practice.He graduated from Princeton University, where he received his BA in political science and economics and got his MBA from Stanford.Book: Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality Fifth Wall Youtube Page:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWfz8CrkgCx84wIIFH-KceAFifth Wall Website: https://fifthwall.com/Brendan Wallace LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brendanfitzgeraldwallace/Fifth Wall LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/fifth-wall-ventures/