In this episode of the Future 1 web show & podcast, we meet Michael Rogers. Micheal is a Partner at Interplay Ventures. Interplay is a venture capital firm and foundry that builds, incubates and invests in companies.  In this episode, we talk about being disciplined to go after what makes you happy, Michael's story towards transitioning into VC from private equity, how he grew in his career

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In this episode of the Future 1 web show & podcast, we meet Gurpreet Oberoi. Gurpreet is an investor at Gray's Peak Capital.  Gurpreet currently focuses on high growth businesses with a global vision as an investor. He has worked on highly visible projects throughout Africa and the Middle East as an operator and financier focused on technology, energy, and healthcare. He was part of a consortium that was shortlisted for $20bln of infrastructure assets in Nigeria.  Gurpreet has raised both debt and equity for VC backed companies and has also done large blocks of private placements for unicorn technology companies. In this episode, we talk about Global Venture Capital in China, Middle East, India & how Nationalism comes into play.

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In this episode of the Future 1 web show & podcast, we meet both Kai Bond from Courtside VC & Diana Kontsevaia from Dell Tech Ventures.  Kai Bond was previously at Comcast Ventures & the Samsung Accelerator.  He focuses on gaming technologies.  At Dell Ventures, Diana Kontsevaia enjoys discovering and magnifying successful startup stories, while helping a Fortune 50 company invest $100M annually into early-stage tech startups in the B2B Enterprise IT space, including AI, Big Data, IoT, Cyber-security, Infrastructure, Cloud-native, Cloud storage systems, DevOps.  We talk about emerging trends in the market and the future of gaming, computing, the VC ecosystem and challenges with getting allocations to deals & raising assets from LPs.

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In this episode of the Future 1 web show & podcast, we meet Yida Gao.  Yida is a General partner at Struck Capital & Divergence Digital Currency Fund (DDC).  Previously, he was a technology investor at NEA, one of the world's largest VC funds with $20Bn+ AUM.  In this episode, we talk about the venture capital ecosystem in China, how the blockchain ecosystem has evolved when it comes to venture to invest, & crypto mining considerations with the upcoming halving coming up.

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In this episode of the Future 1 web show & podcast, we meet Frank Rimalovski.  Frank is the founding executive director of New York University’s Entrepreneurial Institute and managing director of their Innovation Venture Fund. Previously, he was a founding partner of New Venture Partners, director/ entrepreneur-in-residence at Lucent’s New Ventures Group, and has held various positions in product management, marketing, and business development at Sun Microsystems, Apple and NeXT.  We talk about how the first time he met Steve Jobs, The entrepreneurial ecosystem at NYU, being customer-driven, vetting companies at the seed stage, why some innovators don't want to be a CEO, why it's important to learn by doing.

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In this episode of the Future 1 web show & podcast, we meet Greg Neufeld who's a General Partner at Value Stream Ventures.  Greg leads deal sourcing for ValueStream and is hands-on with our portfolio companies, providing business development and enterprise sales support. Prior to ValueStream, Greg was a top sales leader, selling data products into Fortune 500 technology companies for Ovum (Acq. Informa) and software into banks for Middle Office Solutions (Acq. Bloomberg), while launching, advising, and investing in startups along the way.  We talk about the art of crawling, walking & running as a VC.

In this episode of the Future 1 web show & podcast, we meet Joshua Siegel who's the General Partner at Rubicon Venture Capital.  Joshua leads Rubicon’s New York office and oversees the day to day activities and operations of Rubicon including evaluating early-stage technology companies seeking funding, assisting current portfolio companies with development and interaction with our angels, attracting LP capital, and development of their network. Joshua has extensive experience and connections in technology, real estate, luxury lifestyle brands, digital media, and consumer products.  Previously, Mr. Siegel acted as a General Partner at Georgetown Angels, a board member at the Founders Club, was the CEO of Professional Connection Sources, & held executive leadership positions at Citibank.  We talk about how to get into VC by proving yourself, fund structures, return analysis, QSBS, meeting LPs, sourcing deals, & being founder-friendly.  This was an exciting & dynamic discussion at Venture University.

In this episode of the Future 1 webshow & podcast, we meet Greg Lewin from the Lewin Family Office. Previously he advised a large family office, and then at TLF Capital, he focused on capital raising, stock selection, portfolio design, performance. He is a regular panelist discussing the 2008 economic crisis held at the Cornell Club of New York, along with writers from The WSJ, The Economist, and CNBC, hosted by Myron Kandel. In the past, he ran the equities business at sailfish capital partners , raised the institutional capital, was a portfolio manager at Neuberger Berman, ran tech & telecom investing at Charter Oak Partners, and worked in tech at both Merril Lynch & IBM.  He's also an author, speaker & strategist for the Kenya project.  We talk about expectations in life, investing, what wealth really means, and why risk is when you feel the most alive.