Ron Conway

“Ron Conway, Brooke Byers, Tom Perkins — Referenced as earlier-generation investors who modeled a sense of obligation to the tech industry beyond firm returns.”

“turned SV Angel's initial '$200,000 at a $5 million valuation in 2016' into 'around a 275x MOIC'”

“Ron Conway's SV Angel was one of the original investors in Hugging Face, which yesterday agreed to be acquired by Nvidia for nearly $13 billion.”

“California tech billionaires and venture capitalists...organized private chats, PACs, counter-initiatives, and candidate recruitment efforts to fight a proposed 5% tax on billionaires' net worth, only to see the measure gather enough signatures for the November ballot.”

“Ron Conway is probably the most imperfect example of this phenomenon. All he does all day long is help people. He doesn't even keep track of whether they're own portfolio companies. He doesn't even remember most of the favors he does for people. And this allows him to operate on a much larger scale.”