Ryan Bloomer & Adriel Bercow (Managing Partner & Partner @ K50 Ventures)

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This week we had on Ryan Bloomer (@rblooms) and Adriel Bercow (@AdrielBercow) of K50 Ventures.

K50 is a global venture firm that invests early in mission-driven founders transforming the world’s biggest industries. Within their roles, Ryan and Adriel are in charge of finding and supporting founders challenging the status quo in essential categories like health, education, housing, finances, and work.

In this talk, we discuss:

• heightened employee demands and the challenges for modern benefits

• the complex future of remote education

• reasons to be optimistic in the Latin America startup scene

• investing with a mission-driven thesis

Check out the full episode below:

🔊 How to build buzz around your product

📈 7 types of product virality + ways to scale user growth

↗️ Great threads on growth

🎙 The power shift from publishers to personalities

💡 Who Disrupts the Disrupters?

🔢 Scaling data as a lever of growth

• Initialized is looking for a principal in SF.

• ERA is looking for a program associate in NYC.

• Aegis Ventures is looking for an operating partner in NYC.

• Urban Innovation Fund is looking for an associate in SF.

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