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Tomasz Tunguz Investments: The Redpoint Veteran Who Left to Build a Data-First Venture Fund From Scratch

Ann Miura-Ko Investments: The NASA Scientist's Daughter Who Co-Founded Floodgate and Became "The Most Powerful Woman in Startups"

Josh Kopelman Investments: The Half.com Founder Who Invented the Modern Seed Stage

Pejman Nozad Investments: The Iranian Immigrant Who Sold Rugs to VCs and Became Their Peer

Hemant Taneja Investments: The General Catalyst CEO Who Wants to Transform Healthcare, Defense, and AI Simultaneously

Jenny Lee Investments: The First Woman in the Midas List Top 10 Who Backed Alibaba, Xiaomi, and Didi

Sarah Tavel Investments: The Pinterest First PM Who Wrote the Definitive Framework for Marketplace Investing

Kirsten Green Investments: The Forerunner Who Saw Direct-to-Consumer Coming Before Anyone Else

Peter Fenton Investments: The Benchmark Partner Who Backed Twitter at 25 Employees and Wrote the Open Source Playbook

Vlad Tenev Investments: The Robinhood CEO Who Turned the GameStop Crisis Into a $98 Billion Company

Melanie Perkins Investments: The Australian Founder Who Got Rejected by 100 VCs and Built Canva Into a $42 Billion Company

Niklas Zennstrom Investments: The Skype Co-Founder Who Proved Europe Could Build Billion-Dollar Tech Companies

Dylan Field Investments: The Thiel Fellow Who Built Figma From a Dorm Room Idea to a $68 Billion IPO

Ev Williams Investments: The Man Who Built Blogger, Twitter, and Medium Is Still Trying to Figure Out the Internet

Andrew Chen Investments: The Growth Theorist Who Turned 650 Essays Into a General Partner Seat at a16z

Josh Kushner Investments: The Thrive Capital Founder Who Backed OpenAI at $29 Billion and Rode It to $500 Billion

Ken Griffin Investments: How Citadel Built the Most Profitable Hedge Fund in History

Carl Icahn Investments: The Corporate Raider Who Turned Hostility Into a $9 Billion Empire

Stanley Druckenmiller Investments: The Macro Master Who Generated 30% Annual Returns Without a Single Down Year

Logan Paul Investments: The YouTuber Who Built a $1.2 Billion Beverage Brand Before 30

Tony Hawk Investments: The Birdman's Playbook for Turning a Subculture Into a $140 Million Empire

Naomi Osaka Investments: The Grand Slam Champion Turning a Public Health Gap Into a Business

Patrick Mahomes Investments: The Chiefs QB Building a Kansas City Sports Empire at 28

Li Jin Investments: The VC Who Coined "Passion Economy" and Bet on the Creator Middle Class

Aileen Lee Investments: The VC Who Coined "Unicorn" and Built Cowboy Ventures on Data, Not Hype

John Doerr Investments: The Man Who Backed Google, Amazon, and Netscape Before Anyone Else

Carmelo Anthony Investments: The NBA Hall of Famer Who Started a VC Firm While Still Playing

David Beckham Investments: From a $25 Million Option to Inter Miami's Billion-Dollar Franchise

Pharrell Williams Investments: The Producer Behind the Beats Who Built Humanrace, Joopiter, and a Paris Hotel

George Clooney Investments: How the Hollywood A-Lister Turned a Tequila Brand Into a $1 Billion Exit

Snoop Dogg Investments: The Rapper Who Built the Cannabis Industry's Most Credible VC Firm

Fred Wilson Investments: How Union Square Ventures Backed Twitter, Etsy, Coinbase, and the Open Web

Vinod Khosla Investments: The Sun Microsystems Co-Founder Who Bets on "Science Experiments"

Brad Feld Investments: The Boulder VC Who Co-Founded Techstars and Wrote the Book on Startup Communities

Tom Brady Investments: From Seven Super Bowls to a $375 Million Fox Deal and a Tequila-Sized Hole in the FTX Story

The Rock Investments: How Dwayne Johnson Built an $800 Million Empire on Brand Authenticity

Leonardo DiCaprio Investments: The Oscar Winner Who Built a Serious Climate Portfolio Alongside His Acting Career

Susan Wojcicki Investments: How Google's 16th Employee Built YouTube Into a $300 Billion Platform

Michael Moritz Investments: The Welsh Journalist Who Bet on Google for $12.5 Million and Changed Sequoia Forever

Alfred Lin Investments: Sequoia's New Steward Who Built Zappos and Bankrolled Airbnb

Daniel Gross Investments: The Israeli-American Who Built a Supercomputer for AI Startups Before Anyone Else Thought To

Mukesh Ambani Investments: How India's Richest Man Bet the House on a Telecom Disruption and Won

Li Ka-shing Investments: How "Superman" Built a $45 Billion Empire from Plastic Flowers and a 1967 Riot

Joe Rogan Investments: How the World's Most Popular Podcaster Built a $250 Million Empire

Bob Iger Investments: What Disney's Legendary CEO Does With His Capital Outside the Magic Kingdom

Roelof Botha Investments: Sequoia's South African-Born Steward Who Backed YouTube at $11.5M

Jessica Livingston Investments: The Social Radar Who Co-Founded the World's Most Successful Startup Accelerator

Yuri Milner Investments: The Physicist Who Rewrote the Rules of Late-Stage Venture

Jim Breyer Investments: The VC Who Turned $12.7 Million Into Billions (And Kept Going)

Tobi Lütke Investments: What the Shopify CEO Bets On When He's Not Reinventing Commerce

Lisa Su Investments: How AMD's CEO Turned a Near-Bankrupt Chipmaker Into a $200 Billion Powerhouse

Satya Nadella Investments: What Microsoft's Architect of the Cloud Era Bets On Next

Tony Hsieh Investments: The Zappos CEO Who Bet $350 Million on a Downtown

Ratan Tata Investments: What India's Most Beloved Industrialist Taught Us About Backing Founders

Balaji Srinivasan Investments: What the Network State Pioneer Teaches About Betting on Parallel Systems

Garry Tan Investments: What Y Combinator's President Teaches About Betting on the Earliest Believers

Travis Kelce Investments: What the NFL's Most Marketable Tight End Teaches About Brand Velocity

Derek Jeter Investments: What the Yankees Captain Teaches About Building After the Final Game

Howard Marks Investments: What the Distressed Debt Master Teaches About Second-Level Thinking

Cathie Wood Investments: What ARK's Founder Teaches About Long-Horizon Conviction

Ray Dalio Investments: What Bridgewater's Founder Teaches About All-Weather Thinking

Vitalik Buterin Investments: What Ethereum's Founder Teaches About Conviction Without Commercialism

Brian Armstrong Investments: What the Coinbase Founder Teaches About Building Financial Infrastructure

Richard Branson Investments: What the Virgin Empire Builder Teaches About Brand as Infrastructure

Sara Blakely Investments: What the Spanx Founder Teaches About Self-Funded Conviction

Kylie Jenner Investments: What the Youngest Self-Made Billionaire Teaches About Brand-Led Business Building

Robert Downey Jr. Investments: What Iron Man's Real-World Bets Teach About Mission-Driven Investing

Keith Rabois Investments: What the PayPal Mafia's Most Opinionated Operator Teaches About Backing Founders

Mary Meeker Investments: What the Queen of the Internet Teaches About Data-First Investing

Chris Dixon Investments: What the Web3 Philosopher Teaches About Technology Conviction

Bill Gurley Investments: What the Uber Backer Teaches About Market Analysis Done Right

Will Smith Investments: What Dreamers VC Teaches About Cross-Cultural Capital

Alex Rodriguez Investments: What A-Rod Corp Teaches About Building a Second Career From Scratch

Reese Witherspoon Investments: What Hello Sunshine Teaches About Founder-Market Fit in Media

Magic Johnson Investments: What the $1.5 Billion Pioneer Teaches About Underserved Markets

Stephen Curry Investments: What the Greatest Shooter of All Time Teaches About Patient Brand-Building

Shaquille O'Neal Investments: What the NBA Legend Teaches About Franchise-First Investing

Masayoshi Son Investments: What the World's Most Audacious Investor Gets Right (and Wrong)

Tim Draper Investments: The Bitcoin Maximalist Who's Been Right More Than Anyone Expected

Jessica Alba Investments: What the Honest Company Founder Teaches About Mission-Driven Brands

Gwyneth Paltrow Investments: What the Goop Founder Taught Wellness Investors

Kim Kardashian Investments: What SKKY Partners Taught the Industry About Celebrity Capital

MrBeast Investments: What Jimmy Donaldson's Empire Teaches About Reinvesting Everything

Jack Dorsey Investments: What the Bitcoin Maximalist and Block Founder Teaches About Conviction Investing

Jensen Huang Investments: What NVIDIA's CEO Reveals About Betting on the Infrastructure Layer

Jack Ma Investments: What Alibaba's Founder Teaches About Patience, Power, and Rebuilding

Gary Vaynerchuk Investments: What GaryVee's Early Bets Teach About Attention as a Moat

Jason Calacanis Investments: The Original Super Angel's Playbook for Backing 100 Startups a Year

Nas Investments: How Hip-Hop's Best Lyricist Became One of Venture Capital's Best Early Betters

Michael Jordan Investments: What the GOAT's Portfolio Teaches About Patience and Leverage

Warren Buffett Investments: What the Oracle of Omaha Still Gets Right

David Sacks Investments: The PayPal Mafia Playbook for SaaS and Crypto

Kevin Durant Investments: What KD's 100-Company Portfolio Teaches Angel Investors

Jeff Bezos Investments: The Long-Game Compounding Machine

Ryan Reynolds Investments: The Creative Operator Playbook

Elon Musk Investments: The Vertical Integration Playbook

Marc Andreessen Investments: The Platform Bet That Keeps Winning

Ben Horowitz Investments: What "The Hard Thing" Teaches Angel Investors

Naval Ravikant Investments: The Angel Investor's Angel Investor

Peter Thiel Investments: The Contrarian Framework Behind One of Venture's Greatest Track Records