suds sridharan / sf1

You're the founder and general partner of SF1, a $10 million fund, one investing the first check into hyper-technical founders who can hire the very best talent and have a unique insight into product and distribution.

Your former investments include Greptile, Browserbase, Extropic, so many others.

And 65 of your 80 angel investments before 25 were the very first money in.

I actually don't want

to

start with your resume today.

I want to start with South Carolina and how that shaped you and who or what was inspiring to you growing up.

My story starts in Richmond, Virginia.

I was in Richmond until I was 15, at which point I moved to Charlotte, North Carolina.

Richmond is a much smaller, more industrial town.

You really only have real estate as the only high finance there.

Whereas in Charlotte, it's effectively the capital of the South for banks.

Wells Fargo, Bank of America, at the time SunTrust, a few other banks were all headquartered there.

And so I got to learn more about the finance side, what was out there, what was possible.

One way or another, I made my way to Twitter where I have done everything.

And when I was 15, 16 years old, once I got to Charlotte and I got to meet a lot of people who were my age, a little bit older, but actually making really good, meaningful money.

They were being real founders, raising from, I think one guy raised from Greylock.

And I was like, that's Crazy.

I'm never going to be able to raise from Greylock.

When I was sitting in Charlotte, just trying to figure out what I should do.

I tried a bunch of different things.

I had an e-sports gaming org.

I had a financial literacy app and none of them really panned out.

But when I went to college, I went to Clemson in South Carolina.

There wasn't really a startup scene.

You're the founder and general partner of SF1, a $10 million fund, one investing the first check into hyper-technical founders who can hire the very best talent and have a unique insight into product and distribution.

Your former investments include Greptile, Browserbase, Extropic, so many others.

And 65 of your 80 angel investments before 25 were the very first money in.

I actually don't want

to

start with your resume today.

I want to start with South Carolina and how that shaped you and who or what was inspiring to you growing up.

My story starts in Richmond, Virginia.

I was in Richmond until I was 15, at which point I moved to Charlotte, North Carolina.

Richmond is a much smaller, more industrial town.

You really only have real estate as the only high finance there.

Whereas in Charlotte, it's effectively the capital of the South for banks.

Wells Fargo, Bank of America, at the time SunTrust, a few other banks were all headquartered there.

And so I got to learn more about the finance side, what was out there, what was possible.

One way or another, I made my way to Twitter where I have done everything.

And when I was 15, 16 years old, once I got to Charlotte and I got to meet a lot of people who were my age, a little bit older, but actually making really good, meaningful money.

They were being real founders, raising from, I think one guy raised from Greylock.

And I was like, that's Crazy.

I'm never going to be able to raise from Greylock.

When I was sitting in Charlotte, just trying to figure out what I should do.

I tried a bunch of different things.

I had an e-sports gaming org.

I had a financial literacy app and none of them really panned out.

But when I went to college, I went to Clemson in South Carolina.

There wasn't really a startup scene.