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#38 - John Smothers (Ambassador Program Lead @ Acrew Capital) on building businesses on top of online communities, problems with pattern matching, and venture becoming a hospitality business
Manage episode 313225222 series 3262833
This week we had on John Smothers (@smothers_john) from Acrew Capital.
Acrew is a multi-strategy fund focused on modernizing security and infrastructure, rebuilding financial services, reimagining the future of work, better connecting datasets, and activated communities. Within his role, John focuses on sourcing pre-seed companies that match the funds’ thesis.
In this talk, we discuss:
- The opportunity to build businesses on top of existing online communities
- The irony of relying on pattern matching when investing in the future potential of companies
- How venture is becoming a hospitality business
📫 For weekly insights from the next era of investors and operators, make sure to subscribe to Confluence.VC Weekly.
82 episodes
Manage episode 313225222 series 3262833
This week we had on John Smothers (@smothers_john) from Acrew Capital.
Acrew is a multi-strategy fund focused on modernizing security and infrastructure, rebuilding financial services, reimagining the future of work, better connecting datasets, and activated communities. Within his role, John focuses on sourcing pre-seed companies that match the funds’ thesis.
In this talk, we discuss:
- The opportunity to build businesses on top of existing online communities
- The irony of relying on pattern matching when investing in the future potential of companies
- How venture is becoming a hospitality business
📫 For weekly insights from the next era of investors and operators, make sure to subscribe to Confluence.VC Weekly.
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