It all started with pesto. I was 5 years old, hungry and curious. I wanted to know all the ingredients that created this wonderful substance, it was pesto. A week later digging in the backyard I was building a garden to grow basil. This experience is indicative of my entrance into investing, my entrepreneurial spirit and innovation was ignited at 5 and ever since I have been turning problems into solutions and solutions into capital. After pesto came houseboats, I was able to sell 11 houseboats during that four-month summer and after expenses produced approximately $300,000. It was 2008, when the stock market crashed. I plunged funds into the November 2008 bottom buying mining, material, financial, and technology stocks. I watched and waited. I was long. The basil was back! My suspicion was that funds were coming back. Funds came and I cashed out. I moved to San Jose California and was hired as an Associate Banker at a Wells Fargo franchise then moved to Morgan Stanley’s stock plan division in Palo Alto-Menlo Park. During that time I acquired my Series 7, 65, 3, and my California State Insurance license. I handled stock plans for all the local tech companies and worked the trade desk executing trades, I loved this! I showed up at 5AM and worked till 6PM every day and came in on the weekends. I worked with Morgan Stanley’s financial planners to create detailed plans for each of them. I was then able to trade and hold accounts away and so I found myself intrigued by names like Amazon, Now, Bitcoin, Tesla, and Ethereum. At that point I could see how technology and cryptocurrency were going to revolutionize the world. Another stock market crash. I plunged money into the market in March of 2020. I purchased a block of Tesla shares when gas was $1.97 per gallon, dove into Bitcoin at $1,000, in addition to putting significant funds into Amazon, Zoom Video, Beyond Meat, Fastly, Service Now, and Peloton (among others). I rode the bull market, streamlined, and cashed out at the peak. I love evaluating risk and reward and have experience with VC funding from my time with Greystone Consulting and Sandhill Road–Palo Alto Complexes. My team and I are launching an organically grown environmentally corporate and socially responsible hedge fund that focuses on crypto currencies, equities, and derivatives. If you’re interested in talking basil, Crypto, investing in NexPlay, start-ups or derivatives, please reach out. Thanks,
