Playing With Unicorns

Dec 20, 2022

This week, I had the pleasure of chatting with my good friend Oskar Hartmann. He’s had the most incredible unicorn experience:

• He was part of 10% of all German unicorns
• Made a $300M mistake on Ozon
• Managed to make money on Fab.com despite it going from $1.5B in value to $0 in 6 months
• Why selling at the point of...

Dec 20, 2022

On this week’s episode I had the pleasure of welcoming Nitya Sharma, co-founder and CEO of Simpl, to conclude our mini-series on the Indian tech scene. We had a fascinating conversation on the state of Indian Fintech, which in many ways is more advanced than the US. I am beyond impressed by the free C2C / B2B /...

Oct 13, 2022

This week we are covering the state of the Indian tech ecosystem. We are joined by Luke Skertich, senior associate at FJ Labs, who is leading the charge with our Indian investments.

In this episode, we cover:

• The history of India’s tech ecosystem and the recent explosion in unicorns
• Why we are short term pessimistic,...

Oct 10, 2022

In this episode, we cover:

• Niraj’s path to creating Spinny, including creating two much less successful startups right out of college
• The differences between the US & Indian car markets
• Spinny’s unique solution to the market considering the specifics of the market
• Spinny’s ambitions on a go forward basis
• The...

Mar 20, 2022

Lorien Gabel is the Co-Founder of Figment Network. He holds an LLB from Toronto’s Osgoode Hall Law School and is a member in good standing with the Ontario Bar.

In 1994, at the age of 24, 6 months into practicing law, Lorien quit to help his brother Matt run a bourgeoning internet company, Interlog. Over the next four...