I first met Rob Leathern back in early 2005, when I was advising LinkedIn in its earliest days. The platform was wrestling with a question that has only gotten bigger since: how do you build something people can actually trust, when there are smart, motivated adversaries working to exploit it? Rob was already thinking about that problem […]
I started angel investing in 2004 in the Los Angeles ecosystem. My first checks were small — tiny, really — but I always invested my time and network alongside my capital. That combination earned me the reputation as a “go-to” angel, and soon, I started seeing more and more deal flow. I shared those deals […]
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