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Ron Conway

Disciplines:
venture capital
value investing/angel investing
entrepreneurship/startup ecosystem building

Summary

American angel investor and founder of SV Angel, one of Silicon Valley's most prolific early-stage investors with investments in Google, Facebook, Twitter, Airbnb, and hundreds of others.

Core Contribution

Invented the super-angel model — investing at the earliest stage across hundreds of companies, providing connections and introductions as the primary value-add — and became the connective tissue of the Silicon Valley startup ecosystem.

Historical Influences

No recorded historical influences.

Intellectual Lineage

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Tradition Angel Investing

Contemporaries & Peers

Mike Moritz John Doerr Peter Thiel Marc Andreessen

Minds Influenced

Yuri MilnerElad Gil Naval Ravikant

Intellectual Posterity

Super-angel investment modelSV Angel

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