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Scout Program
Fantasy Sports for Early-Stage Investing with real money
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Fantasy Sports for Early-Stage Investing with real money
73 followers
Scout Program is designed to find the world’s best early-stage pickers and give them a public arena to prove it. Each season, 10 scouts receive $100K each to deploy into startups while building their thesis in public. Performance, portfolios, and outcomes are transparent. Scouts publish their theses, build public track records, and compete on outcomes. Our goal is to compress 10 years of quiet reputation-building into one visible season - and make ‘investor’ a skill you prove.
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I've been dreaming of building a "Thiel Fellows for Investors" scout program for a long time. The inspiration for the product came from my starting my career as a scout for Index Ventures. In that program, I was lucky to invest along some of the best operators of my generation - people like Dylan Field from Figma.
My fund ended up being a 4x DPI fund within a few years and one of the top performing in my cohort, but everything happened in private, and there was not a great way for me to showcase the success that I was having.
That said, I did spend a ton of time building my investing career during the program. I launched a Chapter One website, developed a firm thesis, and managed my back office meticulously. T
his experience was ultimately what launched my career as an investor. As I was looking for roles in venture firms, they took me more seriously, and I was able to actually launch my own firm because I had done all the work to develop the firm during this time period.
I want to offer the best of that experience for the next generation of investors, while also creating more of a support system around the program. We have world-class mentors to help develop your career or "coaches" as we call them:
Mamoon Hamid, Partner at Kleiner Perkins
Keith Rabois, Managing Director at Khosla Ventures
Rebecca Kaden, Managing Partner at Union Square Ventures
Kyle Samani, Founder at Multicoin Capital
Roger Ehrenberg, Managing Partner at Game Changers
Gokul Rajaram, Founding Partner at Marathon
Tomasz Tunguz, General Partner at Theory Ventures
Ashton Kutcher, General Partner at Sound Ventures
Laura Andron, Managing Director at Pathstone
Kelli Fontaine, Partner at Cendana Capital
Please share with your friends who might become great investors one day or apply yourself. The ideal fit is likely an operator with a killer network and a boundless curiosity. You are also welcome to apply with teammates if you want to build your Scout Program team with other people you love working with
Congrats on the launch! Really cool concept.
Quick question though - why not let regular people invest their own money instead of using Chapter One's fund? Like, imagine if anyone could throw in $100-1000 and actually share in the upside when these scouts find good deals.
Feels like it'd be way more engaging and actually democratize access to early-stage investing, instead of just being another way for an existing fund to get deal flow.
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