Ramtin Naimi

So I started just tracking individuals that fit the bill.

on LinkedIn.

It's probably, I don't know, six or 7,000 people that qualified.

And anytime one of them changed their job title to founder, I got a push notification and I started reaching out to them.

And that's when I- What year is this?

Just around us?

2016.

And that's kind of when I realized that an unfunded seed stage founder might be like the easiest person in the world to get a meeting with.

I was a nobody at this point in Silicon Valley.

And the fact that anybody would take a meeting with me was nice.

As their financing rounds came together, I would ask for any allocation.

They would give me anything from a $25,000 check that I raise an angel upwards to a $500,000 check that I'd raise as an SPV.

And I'd use AngelList for that.

I'm probably like the number one AngelList success story.

AngelList really catapulted my career.

And I think it's actually an amazing business that more people should pay attention to and leverage the same way I leveraged.

But I think over my first 47 seed deals, I funded in a 10-month window between August of 2016 and June of 2017.

You did 47 in that first year?

47 deals in that first 10 months.

And there I got an angel check into Rippling.