Sublime

Perhaps the best way to develop your reputation as a value-adding investor for startups is to add value to startups. Brian Cohen is now a well-known angel investor (he was the first angel to discover Pinterest), but his initial steps into the field were as a pro-bono advisor. When he first joined New York Angels, he offered to help any of the group

That day—the morning I turned up at his desk and took an inventory—wild shit was happening. Elon Musk was buying Twitter and Sam had been on the phone with one of Musk’s advisors, Igor Kurganov. Kurganov was a Russian-born former professional poker player to whom Musk had entrusted the task, it was reported, of giving away more than $5 billion wort

It seemed really natural to give more funding to people who could do more with it and to find great deals for people who had money but didn’t have differentiated or interesting portfolios.

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