How should an entrepreneur go about picking their venture capital investors? Mark Smith, CEO and Co-Founder of smart-contracts innovator, Symbiont, knows this topic backwards and forwards. Mark has most recently raised $35 million to help Symbiont help reinvent the management of complex financial instruments via the blockchain. On this Heard Around the BLOCK!, Mark shares with us secret wisdom: the three martini rule of partnering with venture capitalists.
Humor aside, Mark's experience as an operator and entrepreneur show through in his comments, as well as in his list of investors, including NasdaqVentures, the former CEO of the NYSE, the former co-head of Citadel, and Raptor Group.