Cred: Former VC, and 3x Co-Founder.

Known for: Financial acumen, creativity, team leadership, community building.

Current: Co-Founder of Fintech Nexus, a 10-year-old digital media company covering frontier technologies.

Personal mission: To build the next generation of business leaders.

Handle: @brustkern

I move fast

I'm an entrepreneur, which means I tend to move fast, and with creativity.

Sometimes things get broken. That’s ok with me as long as they get fixed straight away, and we keep moving forward.

It also means I am resourceful.

Where there are people patching problems, I establish processes. Where there are processes addressing problems, I implement systems. When successful, this not only solves the core problem but also makes us more scalable.

It also means I believe in total ownership.

I push responsibility to the outer edges of the organization.

If I have surrounded myself with the right people, they thirst for responsibility. I consider it my job to give my teammates that responsibility and to support them with guidance and guardrails.

I’m good at a few things

• I am good at inspiring action. I am a leader and I like to build and manage high-impact teams.
• I am good at leading change. I love implementing new tech and processes that allow scale.
• I love finding strong signal among the deafening noise.
• I am good at business development. In this role I think of myself as solving real problems for real people. There is a human connection between us, and that matters.

<aside> 🤖 I wrote my first line of code in 1984. It went 10 GOTO 20. Sadly, I struggled in my first college-level CS course and didn't stick it out.

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<aside> 📊 I am highly analytical and love a good data viz. I own signed copies of each of Ed Tufte's three seminal works.

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<aside> 🙋🏽‍♂️ I'm great at building relationships, although not as good at keeping up with everyone I have met in my adventures. Some of my favorite people haven't heard from me in years. I'm working on this.

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<aside> 💡 I synthesize and simplify complex concepts. I snip the stray threads until all that remains is the essence of the thing itself. If I have any genius in me, this is it.

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