Juan Orbea

This is also an important factor to consider when choosing a company to work at! Dig into what a company values and ensure it aligns with your intended personal growth.

One of the most important things a General Partner (GP) needs to consider early on when starting a venture fund is their portfolio construction strategy. Portfolio construction will impact nearly every aspect of running a fund, including return performance. 

This could occur in many different ways: For example, all organizational decisions could be determined by tokenholder voting, but token ownership and voting turnout could be widely dispersed among many “minnows” (persons each holding a small % of total token supply/total voting power). Alternatively, different types of decisions could be delegated... See more

The final category of work that matters is the sort that you’re uniquely capable of accomplishing. This work is an intersection of what you’re exceptionally good at and what you genuinely care about.

But here’s the magic few people ever talk about …We’ve created more than $1.5 billion in value to Upfront from just 6 deals that WERE NOT immediately up and to the right.The beauty of these businesses that weren’t immediate momentum is that they didn’t raise as much capital (so neither we nor the founders had to take the extra dilution), they took... See more

High-assay low-enriched uranium (HALEU): HALEU is a uranium fuel that contains ~20% U-235. Based on the demand by SMRs and microreactors for HALEU, we’ll need capabilities to develop dozens of metric tons of HALEU uranium in the next decade.

Given that a purist "private property rights only" libertarianism inevitably runs into large problems like its inability to fund public goods, any successful pro-freedom program in the 21st century has to be a hybrid containing at least one Big Compromise Idea that solves at least 80% of the problems, so that independent individual initiative can... See more

Giving What We Can member Henry Howard donated 50% of his income to charity in 2021 during his first year working as a junior doctor in Australia.