Benjamin Narasin

“Asking for a friend”. Do you have access to a box at SAP or know someone that does? The CrossFit games will be there this year and my coach wants to get a box. Probably the only sporting thing I ...

A reminder to seed fund LPs - While some HNW LPs use IRA/Roth for the fund remember that many seed investments will benefit from QSBS so it may be duplicating benefits. Here’s my recent CNBC appea...

The National Retail Federation show won’t need two days so thinking of doing an open mike VC feedback / office hours / any pitch session tomorrow at my hotel in the 50s or later, as I am moving, on...

At the birth of the web six of us started Shop.org. I was the treasurer when we sold to National Retail Federation. Heading back to Nay for their big show - will be interesting to see after many ye...

First post of this was an excerpt. Here’s the full episode. https://lnkd.in/gD-2Ng5b

Wealth taxes haven’t worked anywhere except Switzerland where they are low and rational and don’t have cap gains taxes. We talked about the stupidity of the newest CA effort in that direction this ...

I have been asked by a major business network (do t want to jinx it and last Time I said it specifically it was pushed out a week) to go on air and talk about the stupidity of a wealth tax idea in...

The only downside to being rescheduled from a live I. May apoerance to a zoom from my studio appearance is the super early arise. This is the second d time and I felt like I was a bit more cogent a...

A useful brain test to be cogent in 4-5 AM window. Thanks for having me CNBC and team Squawk Box.

If you are up tune into cnbc.  I will be on SquawkBox on CNBC momentarily.

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Linked In year in review put me in the top 10 percent of users. Not sure for what but at least I hit the same threshold as my supposed ranking as a VC ;)

Just extended my NY trip in pursuit of something special. Let me know if there are events today or tomorrow, or folks to meet or re connect with.

Always fun to get in front of Foubders and was great to meet so many after my “pitch” even if my pitch was that with one in a thousand pitches I see getting funded it was unlikely there would be on...

Excited to be heading back to CNBC tomorrow during the 7:30-8 AM ET on Squawk Box. Watch me if you are awake.

Just landed NYC for this and have some open slots this week if there are folks in my LI universe to meet or refer me on to.

Loved this question from one of my former founders as I left one demo day to get to another for an hour before returning. How do you hustle as hard as you do and then do 2-3 deals a year. But the a...