Welcome to The Legacy Wealth Podcast where we help accredited business owners become educated & get access to, private investments that the wealthiest investors in the world utilize to grow their net worth. We do this by providing insight & access to successful fund managers & investors across multiple asset classes.

I’m your host, Pascal Wagner, and today we are interviewing Kimberly Smith, Chief Capital Formation Officer at Techstars, and we'll diving into:

- How she got exposure to her first fund
- The different asset classes Kimberly has invested in
- And what her process is for evaluating fund managers

With that said, let’s get to it!

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Links from this episode:

• If you're looking for highly vetted opportunities to invest in, get access to our deal database of alternative investments & join our investor club at www.getfundbase.com.
• Watch the show on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/6D6e20REN1M

Links from our Guest

• https://twitter.com/kimsmitspacek
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberly-smith-nyc/
• https://www.instagram.com/kimmiecupcake01/

  
  Time Stamps:
  00:00 - Introduction
  00:45 - Kimberly's background
  02:43 - How Kimberly's passion for investing began
  05:25 - Active vs. passive investment and management
  08:46 - The importance of having a mix of passive and active investments in a portfolio
  11:43 - The importance of financial literacy
  13:44 - Kimberly's first experience investing in a substantial fund
  24:30 - Kimberly talks about how her co-founder taught her about web 3 and inspired her to write articles about it. 
  25:59 - What type of assets Kimberly invested in
  29:15 - Kimberly talks about a fund called Savory Funds
  33:17 - Kimberly discusses how her investment decisions are largely relationship-driven
  37:06 - Kimberly's biggest shift
  39:20 - Outro