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In this episode you will learn:00:00 - Introduction 01:32 - Easy to build good relationships with Investors? 03:55 - Importance of a Good Relationship with Investors 05:59 - Size and Strategy of a fund affects Founder-VC Relationship 07:37 - Components of a Successful Relationship 09:04 - Hummingbird's POV on Investor interference 12:16 - VCs' Role in Crucible Moments 14:39 - Power Dynamics in Founder-VC Relationships 16:35 - Can Investors and Founders be good friends? 21:03 - Scenarios Leading to Founder-Investor Friction 26:36 - Handling Co-Founder Breakups28:29 - Evolution of Founder-Investor Relationships34:49 - Measuring the Founder-Investor Relationship35:57 - ConclusionAboutAkshay leads investments in both emerging markets and global fintech at Hummingbird.Previously, Akshay worked at Citigroup, where he raised equity capital for large corporations, and at Artivest (acquired), where he helped build and grow a platform that enables retail capital to access alternative investments. During graduate school, Akshay had the opportunity to work with MIT's $25 billion endowment fund.In his spare time, Akshay records music and writes about founders in his newsletter, 'Amplify'.He holds an MBA from the Sloan School of Management at MIT and a BA in Economics with a minor in Ethnomusicology from Franklin & Marshall College.

“When we're looking at single founders, there probably is one variable that rises a little bit and that we spent a great deal of time thinking about which is, are they an attractor? Can they attract the things they need to be successful?” – Ben Savage Ben Savage is General Partner at Clocktower Technology Ventures, a leading venture capital group focused on fintech investments. He is also Lead Partner for the private sector of Clocktower Group, a global macro investment firm. Before joining Clocktower, Ben co-founded Artivest, an online financial services startup, and spent years in the financial services field at Bridgewater Associates, Gjelina Group, and Bellfoundry Advisors. Show notes with links, quotes, and a transcript of the episode: https://www.danielscrivner.com/notes/ben-savage-outliers-show-notes  Chapters in this interview: 00:00:06 – Ben's background and experience before Clocktower Group 00:03:02 – Ben's learnings from the culture at Bridgewater Associates 00:12:35 – Clocktower Group and investing at the macro level 00:24:18 – Investing in human capital 00:31:36 – Focusing on fintech investing 00:35:16 – How fintech will save the world 00:43:53 – Why Clocktower does not invest in crypto 00:51:31 – Choosing not to lead deals gives Clocktower an edge 00:56:32 – On weaknesses and clear communication   Sign up here for Outlier Academy Weekly, our Sunday newsletter that highlights the latest episode, expands on important business and investing concepts, and contains the best of what we read each week. Follow Outliers on Twitter: https://twitter.com/outlieracademy. If you loved this episode, please share a quick review on Apple Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Miguel Armaza sits down with Ben Savage and Adriana Saman, from Clocktower Technology Ventures, a fintech-focused venture capital fund that’s also the technology investing affiliate of Clocktower Group, a global macro investment firm. Ben is a fintech entrepreneur turned investor with an MBA from Stanford University and Adriana got her Bachelors from our very own University of Pennsylvania. We discussed: - Their backgrounds and what led them to Venture Capital - Clocktower’s investment strategy and approach - Their decision to focus on fintech and why they are excited about the reinvention of financial services - Why they have invested beyond the United States, with a particular emphasis on Latin America - Navigating COVID - Their outlook for the road ahead of the industry - And a lot more! Ben Savage Ben manages Clocktower Technology Ventures and is responsible for all of Clocktower Group’s private market activities. Ben was previously Director, Investment Associate Program for Bridgewater Associates, where he worked with the firm’s CIOs on strategic priorities, talent development and research. Ben began his career as a VC and private equity investor with Wasserstein Perella. Ben also co-founded Artivest fka Resonance Funds, an online issuer of actively-managed exchange traded vehicles, as well as Waterfall Mobile. Ben holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA in philosophy from Yale University. Ben lives in Bel Air with his wife and two young children. Adriana Saman Adriana focuses on deal sourcing, diligence, and execution. Prior to Clocktower, Adriana was a Strategy Associate in Chase’s Digital Payments team where she worked closely with all consumer-related payment products to develop consolidated roadmaps, business cases, and strategic initiatives. Before joining Digital Payments, she worked at J.P. Morgan as an Investment Banking Analyst focusing on M&A transactions across Latin America. Adriana is originally from Ecuador and holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania. About Clocktower We partner with phenomenal entrepreneurs who have the vision and drive to reinvent financial services, investing from the earliest seeds of startup life to businesses scaling for growth. We support leading companies across all sectors of financial services, including lending, credit & banking, payments, insurance, capital markets & investments, personal finance, enterprise financial stack and real estate finance. Our distinctive approach to fintech venture capital is crafted around a curated network of global macroeconomic thinkers and investors. Launched in 2015, Clocktower Technology Ventures is the technology investing affiliate of Clocktower Group, a global macro investment firm. CTV is based in Santa Monica, CA and invests worldwide.

Jeff Shek is a seasoned lead engineer with exceptional experience in building distributed, reliable and maintainable code for web and enterprise systems. He has personally built, grown or mentored software engineering teams. At his last startup, HistoWiz, Jeff's primary focus was engineering an online platform for annotation, collaboration, machine learning algorithms and processing of digital histology.  Prior to HistoWiz, Jeff has served as either a technical lead, senior engineer, and/or product manager of NYC's well-known and fastest startups (Capsule Pharmacy, Artivest, YCharts). His open-source projects have been used by thousands of people. Contact Info: senrigan.io/blog jeffshek@gmail.com @shekkery What we talked about: Spaced RepetitionAnkiHow to Create Anki CardsThe Power of FlowCognitive ScienceProductivity HacksEffect of Exposure to Multiple CodebasesWhat is a Senior Dev? Full Show Notes Here: https://juniortoseniordev.com/episode-6-overcoming-a-mid-level-crisis-interview-with-jeff-shek/

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with impressive fintech leaders and entrepreneurs, through conversation uncovers the remarkable stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech.   You can subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio.   In this episode the host John Siracusa chats with Tom Ryan, partner at Anthemis.   Anthemis is a leading global venture investment platform with over half a billion in AUM.  A few of their portfolio companies are past guests on the show, such as Farhan Ahmad from Bento for Business, Richard Arundel from CurrencyCloud, James Waldinger from Artivest, Jon Stein from Betterment, Rhian Horgan from Kindur, Fawce from Quantopian and Chris Bruno from Rally Road.      Tune in and Listen.     Subscribe now on iTunes, Google , Stitcher, Spotify and iHeartRadio to hear next Tuesday’s all new episode with James Haluszczak from SteelBridge Labs.       About the host:   John, is the host of the ‘Bank On It’ podcast recorded onsite in Wall Street at OpenFin, and 'Before the A' podcast recorded onsite in Flat Iron at Barclays/Techstars Rise NYC.   He’s a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He’s in the center of the fintech ecosystem, keeping current with the ever-innovating industry.  Stay in the fintech know by subscribing to ‘Bank On It’, ‘Before the A’  Follow John on LinkedIn, Twitter, Medium  

The Jelly Donut Podcast #1 - David Levine was recorded on October 14, 2019. David Levine founded Odin River in 2015. Previously, David served as CIO of Artivest, a venture-backed company that provides Insight and Access to exceptional investing. Before Artivest, David honed his investing experience at Paulson & Co., a hedge fund firm led by John Paulson. While at Paulson & Co., David made investments in industries including automotive, energy, software, hardware and Internet. David was previously on the private equity investment team at Colony Capital, making investments in gaming, hospitality and real estate. His investment experience also includes time at Canyon Capital and PAAMCO. David began his career in Lehman Brothers’ Mergers & Acquisitions Group where he focused on power. David received an MBA, with honors, from Harvard Business School and a JD, cum laude, from Harvard Law School. He graduated from Washington University, receiving an AB in Philosophy, summa cum laude, and a BSBA in Finance, magna cum laude. David is also the Vice Chairman of the Leadership Council of Year Up New York and is a member of the New York bar. David is an angel investor and advisor to startups in industries ranging from Clean Energy to Financial Technology. He has been an active tweeter and blogger since 2007 and has been quoted in publications like the NY Times and MIT Tech Review. He was named one of the top 55 undiscovered “rockstars” in tech by Business Insider and TechCrunch. David resides in the West Village of Manhattan with his wife and their young daughter. https://www.odinriver.com/ https://twitter.com/paranoidbull https://twitter.com/davealevine --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jellydonutpodcast/support

Mr. James David Waldinger, J.D, MBA, is the CEO and Founder and of Artivest. Prior to forming Artivest, Waldinger was a portfolio manager with Clarium Capital, a large global macro hedge fund established in 2002 by Peter Thiel, co-founder and former CEO of PayPal. He also served as the lead analyst on Thiel’s initial Facebook investment in 2004. Prior to his positions with Clarium and Thiel, Waldinger worked with a variety of internet and technology startups in advisory, investment, and operational roles. He is licensed to practice law in the state of New York and currently holds FINRA Series 3, 7, and 24 securities licenses. He received his JD and MBA degrees from Stanford University and his BA from Yale University.Check out what James is up to at: https://artivest.co/

On this episode JJ chats with Benjamin Savage the co-founder of Clocktower Technology Ventures and Managing Director at Drobny Capital. At Drobny Ben spearheads new business initiatives across the firm and is responsible for private market activities, including leadership of Clocktower’s investments. Ben was previously Director, Investment Associate Program for Bridgewater Associates, where he worked with the firm’s CIOs on strategic priorities, talent development and research. Ben began his career as a venture capital and private equity investor with Wasserstein Perella, and also co-founded Artivest and Waterfall Mobile. Ben holds a BA in philosophy from Yale University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

On this episode JJ chats with Benjamin Savage the co-founder of Clocktower Technology Ventures and Managing Director at Drobny Capital. At Drobny Ben spearheads new business initiatives across the firm and is responsible for private market activities, including leadership of Clocktower’s investments. Ben was previously Director, Investment Associate Program for Bridgewater Associates, where he worked with the firm’s CIOs on strategic priorities, talent development and research. Ben began his career as a venture capital and private equity investor with Wasserstein Perella, and also co-founded Artivest and Waterfall Mobile. Ben holds a BA in philosophy from Yale University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

In this live episode from the Envestnet Advisor Summit® in Texas, Tom Gatto discusses his resilient career journey with host Doug Heikkinen. Tom is the director of strategic relationships at Artivest, a technology platform that provides insight and access to exceptional alternative investing. In this episode, you’ll learn: How Tom’s experience at Merrill Lynch and … Continue reading Envestnet Advisor Summit®: Giving Yourself Permission to Go for It — With Tom Gatto, Director of Strategic Relationships at Artivest →

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs through conversation uncovers the amazing stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can Subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher and iHeartRadio In this episode, John talks with James Waldinger, Founder and CEO of Artivest.  James was able to raise a $2,000,000 seed round with a Power Point back in 2012, now Artivest currently has about 100 employees.  Before that he was an analyst on Peter Thiel's initial Facebook investment team and from the research Peter decided to invest $500,000, after the Facebook IPO he sold about 17,000,000 shares grossing $638,000,000.  James was part of that team which put that deal together and he discusses this during the interview in this episode.   James Waldinger LinkedIn - Twitter Artivest LinkedIn - Twitter   Subscribe now to hear Tuesday's interview with Mazy Dar from Openfin.   About the host: John is the host of the 2x weekly "Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite from the CG offices and a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He's in the center of the fintech ecosystem keeping current with the ever - innovating industry. Follow John on LinkedIn, Twitter or Medium

Every week the show host John Siracusa talks with amazing fintech leaders and entrepreneurs through conversation uncovers the amazing stories behind them, their creations and the most important topics in fintech. You can Subscribe to this podcast and stay up to date on all the stories here on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher and iHeartRadio In this episode, John talks with Dhruv Bansal, Co-Founder and CSO of Unchained Capital.  Unchained Capital is a crypto secured loan provider. During the episode Dhruv said “You can't control volatility but you can trade it back and forth with their borrowers”  which is what makes the whole system work. During the interview Dhruv shared an amazing period of time during Unchained Capital's life.  Bitcoin had a 70% draw-down from December 2017 until March 2018 and Unchained Capital had to margin call 90% of their loans but not a single borrower defaulted.  He went on to explain why and it was very interesting.   Dhruv Bansal LinkedIn - Twitter Unchained Capital LinkedIn - Twitter   Subscribe now to hear Thursdays interview with James Waldinger from Artivest.   About the host: John is the host of the 2x weekly "Bank On It” podcast recorded onsite from the CG offices and a highly sought after fintech, VC and financial services industry enthusiast and connector. He's in the center of the fintech ecosystem keeping current with the ever - innovating industry. Follow John on LinkedIn, Twitter or Medium

Panelists include: Robert Cortright, DriveWealth; James Waldinger, Artivest; Javier Benson, Realty Shares; Bo Brustkern, NSR Invest; Rashmi Singh, Ernst & Young; Moderator: Lex Sokolin, Autonomous Research. Panel explores what makes a next generation investment product, getting perspectives from a wide variety of firms who provide products and services; panelists talk about where we are at when it comes to the asset class and the opportunities that still lie ahead; Artivest shares that they are focused on the delivery mechanism as opposed to changing the ways they structure securities; RealtyShares’ Javier Benson noted that the underlying asset being real estate is the same but they’ve been able to make slight modifications to the structure, bringing tech and product together; others share the tech, automation and workflows they use in their business today.