Ramtin Naimi

I got a first dollar check into Solana, four cents a token.

I got a seed check into Clay.

I got a seed check into Cherry, a seed check into Newfront.

bunch of crypto companies.

I got into the management company round of a hedge fund called Polychain Capital, which for a brief period of time was the largest cryptocurrency hedge fund in the world and even in privates as well.

And then I got to see a bunch of the companies that spun out in the early crypto ecosystem.

So Avalanche, DYDX, RSPBs have returned close to $100 million on AngelList at this point.

But within the first 47 companies that I'd funded, Ripple and Solana have coin market caps of north of $100 billion today.

Rippling is approaching a $20 billion market cap, and everything else I mentioned is between a $2 and $7 billion market cap.

So out of 47 companies, two centicorns, one decacorn, and about eight or nine unicorns, these individual types of founders that I was tracking turned out to be the right types of individuals to track.

Is that how you found all those people?

For the most part.

Some of them were obviously, I just spent time with every junior VC at every single venture capital firm in the Silicon Valley.

And I would have catch-up meetings with all of them on a weekly basis.

And when I heard multiple people in one week mention the same names over and over again, I just started reaching out to those individuals.

How did you get into them?

Very aggressive.

What does aggressive mean for you?

For me, it just meant being relentless, checking in constantly.

What can I do?