I've been an engineer, entrepreneur and investor in Silicon Valley for 30 years. I founded Practical Venture Capital and 500 Startups, and worked at Founders Fund and PayPal. I’ve invested in hundreds of startups around the world, including 40+ unicorns and 10+ IPOs. I made the Forbes Midas List of top 100 global VCs in 2016 and 2017. I have a BS in Engineering and Applied Mathematics from Johns Hopkins University. I'm a nerd. [Practical Venture Capital] In 2019 I founded Practical Venture Capital, a VC secondary firm that provides liquidity solutions for LPs and GPs in early-stage VC funds. We specialize in buying LP & GP fund interests in microVC funds at years 5-10 (“skip the J-cur