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Tristan Pollock
Movement builder. All things growth. 2x startups acquired. Crypto CEO. Founder of Cool Climate Collective. 500 Global VC. Google EIR. Terra Fellow.
Movement builder. All things growth. 2x startups acquired. Crypto CEO. Founder of Cool Climate Collective. 500 Global VC. Google EIR. Terra Fellow.
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Co-directed the $65M Fund IV into 400 startups via seed fund and accelerator investments while also consistently coaching founders on growth strategies.
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Content Manager & ESG Team
Created the most opened and clicked email in Best Buy history reaching 23 million customers while also overseeing the social responsibility online network, 400-member newsletter,... more and launching the first TEDx meetup on the Best Buy campus.
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Weekly blog about startups, VC, and life lessons
Tristan Pollock is an entrepreneur and startup investor who has built and sold two startups. The latest was Storefront, which he raised $10M for and was… · More called the 'Airbnb of Retail' by the New York Times. After investing ~$30M into 218 startups as an Entrepreneur in Residence and
Semi-regular column on entrepreneurship and venture capital.
Tristan Pollock is an international entrepreneur community builder who has helped strengthen startup ecosystems across 50 countries from Albania to Russia to… · More Vietnam to Saudi Arabia. He has started and sold two companies, SocialEarth and Storefront. The first he bootstrapped.
Investing in startups with time and money.
Tristan Pollock is an Entrepreneur in Residence and Venture Partner at 500 Startups, the world's most active seed fund and startup accelerat...
Tristan Pollock was named Forbes 30 under 30 in 2015.
Tristan Pollock is an American tech entrepreneur and startup investor who has created and sold two companies and invested $30 million into Silicon Valley… · More startups via 500 Startups. Tristan has built startup ecosystems around the globe with the likes of Google for Startups, international VCs, and startup accelerator programs spanning from Russia to Saudi Arabia supporting thousands of startup founders on their entrepreneurial journeys.
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☞ Built and sold 2 startups as an 'all things growth' founder.
☞ Grew last startup's top-line revenue to $20M by building a nationwide movement.
☞ Scaled a crypto community to over 1 million holders and $10M in BD pipeline.
☞ Invested $65M into startups as a Silicon Valley VC and another $2.1M into ClimateTech companies as Founding Partner of Cool Climate Collective.
☞ Ran, built, and coached at over 70 startup accelerator programs supporting 10K+ entrepreneurs for the likes of 500 Global, Google, and Techstars.
☞ Named Forbes 30 Under 30 for helping Kanye West, Nike, and Google open stores.
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What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?
The Silk Roads - it's not directly a business book per se, but it tells about the movement of commerce over the last 2000+ years and I think history and the spread of ideas can tell you a lot about the future and how leaders lead.
What's your favorite non-business book?
Infinite Jest - it's a modern-day War and Peace at around 1000 pages. Incredibly smart, it talks about everything from the future of technology to addiction to family drama to espionage. It's crazy, hard to read, but very rewarding at the end.
What words of advice would you give your younger self?
We created the world today, so we can create any world we want to see in the future.
What's the most creative thing you've ever done?
Paint a street art mural, grow a startup, and (coming soon) build a pyramid for AfrikaBurn.
Which founders or startups do you most admire?
Elon Musk because of his focus on making major moonshot changes to society. Also, anything creative or impact oriented.
What's your super power?
Building a movement around an idea.
What's the best way for people to get in touch with you?
Tweet or email me! https://twitter.com/pollock
What words of wisdom do you live by?
"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us."
-Socrates
What aspects of your work are you most passionate about?
Culture of the internal organization, inspiration of a brand movement, and the community power coefficent of both.
What was the most impactful class you took in school?
Psychology, sociology and history.
What's something you wish you had done years earlier?
Learned music production and spent more time on public art.
If money were not an issue, what would you be doing right now?
Making more mysterious art.
What's an obstacle you've overcome?
Moving to San Francisco on zero salary and near-zero net worth while starting my 2nd startup. On 3 days notice we got into the AngelPad accelerator. We packed up and left MN, lived two companies deep (four founders) in a one bedroom apartment for 3 months
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