Today we’re launching the Slow Ventures Creator Fund: more than $60m for the first institutional seed vehicle backing creator entrepreneurs
- Today, I’m excited to announce our newest Slow Creator investment backing @StevenBartlett, one of the most prolific creator-entrepreneurs laying the blueprint for community-first founders. Through his flagship podcast, Diary of a CEO, Steven has built an insanely loyal and🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT: Today I’m excited to announce we’ve closed a major investment to build the Disney of the creator economy! In 2017, on my way home from work I picked up a $100 mic from the Apple Store, went home, plugged it into GarageBand, opened my diary and started talking
- Doubling down on creators: welcoming Billy Parks to @slow ! I'm excited to welcome @billyfilm from The Chernin Group to the Slow team as a Venture Partner supporting our creator investment strategy – backing the next generation of community first entrepreneurs
- very excited to back Jonathan Katz-Moses, the first investment out of our new slow creator fund. Jonathan is an expert woodworker with a deep and loyal community, on which he’s built a dominant platform and fast growing tool brand. More in my newsletter:
- +1 for brands and businesses built on the back of distribution and real communityOver Two-thirds of Consumers Are Choosing Creator-founded Products, Research Shows trib.al/NxErRnq
- I think about @patrick_oshag's conversation with Adam Sandow no less than 1x a week. It has to be my most shared podcast episode ever
- From @hanslorei newsletter: I've heard it said a bunch of different ways recently... Something to the effect of "a plumber today still thinks they are in the service business. But they are actually in the content business selling a service"
