$20m Fund for Amazon Sellers Using Private AI to Uncover Gold Mines

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

Ceo, Entrepreneurs, Founders, Software, Business, Entrepreneurship, Saas, Startups

4.6 • 683 Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

After careers in financial markets (Standard Chartered Bank) and academia (Professor of International Relations), Simon started to buy and build businesses and to date has an IRR of 27%. He built sustainable incomes in 8 countries and is now living in Virginia, USA, with his wife and daughter. Simon is English with dual US and British citizenships (ask him why one isn’t enough). He is an alumni of University College London (BA (Hons), MA), the University of Edinburgh (PGDip by Research), the University of Exeter (M.Ed) and the University of Cambridge and is a past recipient of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council‘s scholarship for Artificial Intelligence.

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0:00.0	And you're bootstrapping all this with your past exit money. Is that accurate?
0:03.4	Well, part in the fund, yeah.
0:05.4	Yeah, yeah. Well, how do you make money on the fund? Are you charging two and 20?
0:08.9	Yep.
0:09.5	Got it. Okay.
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