At Commonwealth, we sold fractional ownership shares in racehorses. Our first horse delivered +12x returns and another won the Kentucky Derby. Now, we're applying the same model to people. Betting on an individual. That individual assigns everything they will do to an entity

What’s the minimum $ amount you would take right now for 5% of everything you make or build over the next 15 years? It’s a wild thought experiment. We are talking to 100’s of individuals with large social media followings right now around this structure. The majority of them

Something wild happens when you get 400 fractional owners in a racehorse. Obviously everybody has a vested interest in that horse’s performance. What’s less obvious is the COMMUNITY that the interest creates. Back when I was with Commonwealth we would easily have 50 to 100

The traditional model of horse ownership was expensive and exclusive. You owned the whole horse or you owned nothing. I was involved with a business called Commonwealth that changed that. Anyone can invest in fractional racehorse ownership. We had a horse win the Kentucky

.Ryan Hoover (Founder of @producthunt) on what he’s investing in. Check out number 3. People. He broke it down in more detail: “At Weekend Fund we invest in companies but much of our decision criteria is based on the founder(s). Venture investing, with all of its flaws, is a

These are the Liberman brothers They raised money at a $400 million valuation in exchange for a share of EVERYTHING they build for the next 30 years. Here’s how it’s going 4 years in: David and Daniil (and their two sisters, Anna and Masha) joined forces to start Libermans Co.

Sam Altman: “This is probably the best time (maybe ever) to be starting your career” When asked how startup founders should handle a failed venture or pivot, Sam responds: “First of all, I think this is probably the best time — maybe ever — to be starting out your career

them: I've never really thought about investing in individuals me:

Imagine investing in Mark Zuckerberg in ‘03. Before Facebook. And way before his $177B net worth. You would have seen a Harvard sophomore who built Facemash in a night While others were saying, “Why invest in some college kid's dating site?" You would have been saying, “I

Whoever designed Mercury Personal's new site deserves a raise.

Just spoke with a venture fund looking to write $1–10M checks into individual creators. Not companies. Not projects. People. The shift is starting to happen — individuals are becoming investable entities. What a time.

We’re in late-stage talks with an engineer-turned-creator whose now scaling a company alongside his personal brand. We manage his brand deals—he has 6.5M on TikTok and nearly 500k on Instagram. His personal brand pulls in ~$300K/year. He also runs a SaaS product doing $90K

Counter-Strike 2 weapon skins now have a $5 billion market cap* on Steam. That’s not a typo. (Yes, just the weapon skins.) *aggregate value of all CS2 weapon skins listed for sale

The most common question I get about crowdsurf... “How does it work?” In short, we are building the infrastructure for individuals to raise capital like companies. What does that look like? An individual assigns everything they do for a certain time period to an entity.

Two years ago, the company I worked for had a horse win the derby. ~400 investors had a stake—and saw meaningful returns. It wasn’t just about the money. It was about access. About giving everyday people a shot at something they’d never thought possible. We had 100 people in

Two undergrads built an open-source speech model that outperforms industry leaders. This will continue to happen. Small teams will need less funding to get something going. The barrier to entry has never been lower.

Traditional valuation methods break down when you're investing in people. Here’s why: In venture, you’re usually underwriting revenue and growth projections. But with individuals, you’re underwriting *a stack*: – A media machine – A product studio – A distribution channel – A

ClaudeAI’s CEO just made the boldest prediction in history: "A single person will soon run a billion-dollar company.” No team. No office. Just one person and an AI empire. Here’s exactly how he plans to make it happen: 🧵

**Sam Altman and Dario Amodei both predict the first billion-dollar company with a single employee could exist by 2026.** Altman is CEO of OpenAI—currently valued at $300B. Amodei is CEO of Anthropic—valued at $61B. They’re not exactly making wild guesses. Most new YC