Eric Muschinski is a thriving entrepreneur and investor with a unique blend of 28 years of experience spanning from Wall Street to Silicon Valley to Howe/Bay Street. Phenom Ventures LLC is a holding company overseeing Eric's various businesses and investments, while Phenom Foundation is changing the game in the non profit and charity universe. Eric also writes to sophisticated investors through his various newsletters including the Gold Investment Letter, Elite Investments, and Phenom Crypto Letter.Eric specialized early on in understanding alternative investments such as venture capital, hedge funds, private equity, crypto, gold, junior mining exploration, secondary markets, swing trading, and capital markets speculation. He is a life long student of personal and investor psychology, which drives a substantial amount of his investment decisions and thesis. He is currently most actively invested in the crypto and blockchain universe having estimated well over 10,000 hours of study since late 2016. Next up is mining and metals, which is providing extraordinary opportunities over the next few/handful of years.Eric studied Business Economics and Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater before dropping out after 2 years to pursue a career as a stockbroker in Chicago at age 20. He had over 15 years of diverse experience in the securities industry and raised hundreds of millions of dollars for growth companies both private and public. Initially as a general securities broker, and later focused his practice on alternative investments, exclusively for high net worth investors and institutions. Prior to Waveland Capital Partners where he worked from 2006-2011, Eric was Vice President and Co-Founder of GunnAllen Venture Partners where he invested in late stage technology companies alongside tier one VC's as partners. Prior to GunnAllen, Eric served in the Private Client Group with McDonald Investments Inc., and another boutique investment bank headquartered in Chicago.