@novak

A few years later, I learned to invest at 28th Street Ventures, the family office of Michael Gearon Jr., former owner of the Atlanta Hawks. I was the #2 guy on a bunch of deals I probably had no business being involved with: the $600m acquisition of Grindr, an investment into leading Asian fintech Atome, and a 100+ megawatt solar project in Chile. Within a year, I also started a crypto fund. The family office allocated $10M to a portfolio of crypto assets that I ran. I found myself researching crypto nonstop. I loved the debates around consensus mechanisms. PoS was still controversial and Ethereum hadn’t transitioned yet. I lived through “DeFi Summer” in 2020 and watched dozens of protocols like Uniswap and Aave redefine finance while hundreds of others started copycats with increasingly unsustainable incentives.

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