Jamie Roberts Seltzer

@JamieLightShed

capital gardner @ lightshed ventures // defending democracy @stateaffairsus // bard @ incredible dream // soothsayer @ eventual

Manhattan, NY

Joined September 2008

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Jamie Roberts Seltzer
@JamieLightShed
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Plato once said, “One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” Evan and I are building State Affairs to solve the glaring transparency problem in the democratic process. The legislative process has become so
Brady Evan Burns
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More Americans believe we’ll colonize the moon before we fix K-12 education. This is a policy problem. We have been building a solution that’s already trusted by many of the Fortune 500 as well as 1/3 of federal and state elected officials in the United States. Organizations
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Jamie Roberts Seltzer
@JamieLightShed
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In the early days of State Affairs, @evanburns and I came across this Pew Research report that completely changed the way we understood the industry. Only ~850 full-time statehouse reporters exist in the entire United States. This was largely attributable to the demise of local
Jamie Roberts Seltzer
@JamieLightShed
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Jamie Roberts Seltzer
@JamieLightShed
Jul 28
Bringing clarity to the prediction markets. Let’s go @keendawg @EventualNews H/T @sarafischer @RichLightShed @LightShedVC @BrandoLightShed @XavierLightShed @WaltLightShed
Exclusive: Prediction markets get their own media company
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Jamie Roberts Seltzer
@JamieLightShed
Jul 21
Empowering customers to be proactive around policy instead of reactive
State Affairs
@StateAffairsUS
Jul 21
We raised $70m from @khoslaventures and @foundersfund on the belief that policy and regulations impact organizations more than financial markets. State Affairs provides daily data and coverage of what's happening across the US and to enable companies to analyze and act on policy.
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