David Brown

Impellent Ventures, Managing Partner

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Career Highlights

• Started a venture firm doing work that I love working with people I truly drive energy from working with

• Designed and build a nonprofit gathering over 15k people annually and creating a novel investment strategy for philanthropy

• Chose to focus on working with only people I like

Failures

• Got fired from my first job for being too impatient to try to run the business

• Spent too long chasing what I thought others would be proud of me for versus what got me excited

Current Focus

• Using equity and investment to create opportunity where it traditionally hasn't been offered

Hobbies

Family, Skiing, Golf, Adrenaline rushes (extreme sports), Comedy shows, Building intimate friendships

Talk to me about

• Team dynamics and moving through interpersonal lockups

• Structuring deals

• Finding work/life balance

• Operating in nonprimary markets

I want to talk to you about

• Identifying and building decentralized ecosystems supports that entrepreneurs at the earliest stages (what are your blocks you want more help from funds with).

• Conversations around what scares and excites founders for the next five years.

• Potential fund investor introductions.