#78 Investor Chat: Lou Kerner - A Few Things - 18 Min

We discussed a number of things including:1. Lou's entrepreneurial career journey2. State of crypto and web3 sectors3. Importance of community4. Davos insights5. Future forecastsLou is a Partner at Blockchain Coinvestors, a #crypto fund-of-fund invested in 40 of the leading crypto #VCs around the world. He is also the CEO of Blockchain Coinvestors Acquisition Corp. 1, a publicly traded #SPAC.Lou is also the Head Crypto Analyst at Quantum Economics, a crypto advisory firm. He has been a crypto enthusiast, investor, and thought leader since 2013, when the Wall Street Journal called Lou "Wall Street’s #Bitcoin Expert''. Lou is ranked among the most influential crypto bloggers on Medium, regularly keynotes major crypto industry events, and often appears on TV or in print talking about crypto. He also regularly hosts conference calls with crypto industry innovators attended by hundreds of crypto enthusiasts and investors.Previously, Lou was a Founding Partner of CryptoOracle, a VC focused on building, growing, and engaging decentralized communities. At CryptoOracle, he started CryptoMondays, the largest crypto meetup group in the world, with chapters in 70+ cities around the world.Prior to CryptoOracle, Lou was a Partner at the decentralized VC, Flight, where he managed The Israeli Founders Syndicate. Prior to Flight, Lou was the Managing Partner of The Social Internet Fund (SIF), which invested in shares of rapidly growing tech companies.Prior to SIF, Lou was an angel investor, best known for investing in Facebook and writing the first Wall Street style research report on the company in 2010. Before angel investing, Lou ran two digital companies, Bolt (the largest social network before MySpace), and .tv (which commercialized the top-level domain .tv licensed from the tiny island nation of Tuvalu). .tv was acquired by VERISIGN.Prior to .tv, Lou had a distinguished career as an equity analyst following media and tech companies for Goldman Sachs and Merrill Lynch. He has a B.A. from University of California, Los Angeles and an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.