Web 3, Crypto & NFTs
Fireside Chat: Gaming and the next billion Web3 users
About This Talk
Speakers
Nikki Farb is an active investor in and advisor to technology companies. She is currently a Venture Partner at Headline and invests in web3 companies.
Farb began her career as a teacher for the Broad Foundation - selected as 1 out of 10,000 applicants to pioneer a program in public high schools. After her program, Farb attended the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and studied finance, entrepreneurship and accounting. Upon graduation, Farb joined Goldman Sachs’ Investment Banking Division and advised technology companies of all stages across a range of strategic and financing transactions. In 2011, she was promoted to Head of Emerging Internet Companies - a new role established to ensure GS was identifying and selecting the most promising early stage technology companies including Pinterest, Instagram, Reddit and SnapChat. She was the first touch point for Goldman Sachs and established early, meeting in the garage, relationships with the CEOs of the companies that became icons of their decade. In addition to building relationships and executing deals, Farb was a senior investing team member on a $200M Goldman Sachs Venture Capital Fund. In 2013, Farb left Goldman Sachs to found Darby Smart, a user-generated video shopping platform. Darby Smart was an early leader in the creator economy. Darby Smart was acquired by Grove Collaborative (expected IPO in 2022). After serving as an executive at Grove (1,100 employees), Farb joined Headline, $2.5BN AUM, as a Venture Partner and began focusing on partnering with and investing in the best entrepreneurs in web3. She advises SoFi, and is an investor in Consensys (MetaMask), Fractal, AfterParty and Wander.
Farb has been involved in the web3 movement since 2013, having invested in BitCoin then, and is deeply passionate about the potential for this computing paradigm.
Farb has made regular appearances on Good Morning America and has been featured in the WSJ, Fortune, Forbes, CNN, Bloomberg and Fox.
In her free time, she hangs out with her twin boys, Kass and Cooper, and her husband Michael (a 3 time entrepreneur).
Farb began her career as a teacher for the Broad Foundation - selected as 1 out of 10,000 applicants to pioneer a program in public high schools. After her program, Farb attended the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and studied finance, entrepreneurship and accounting. Upon graduation, Farb joined Goldman Sachs’ Investment Banking Division and advised technology companies of all stages across a range of strategic and financing transactions. In 2011, she was promoted to Head of Emerging Internet Companies - a new role established to ensure GS was identifying and selecting the most promising early stage technology companies including Pinterest, Instagram, Reddit and SnapChat. She was the first touch point for Goldman Sachs and established early, meeting in the garage, relationships with the CEOs of the companies that became icons of their decade. In addition to building relationships and executing deals, Farb was a senior investing team member on a $200M Goldman Sachs Venture Capital Fund. In 2013, Farb left Goldman Sachs to found Darby Smart, a user-generated video shopping platform. Darby Smart was an early leader in the creator economy. Darby Smart was acquired by Grove Collaborative (expected IPO in 2022). After serving as an executive at Grove (1,100 employees), Farb joined Headline, $2.5BN AUM, as a Venture Partner and began focusing on partnering with and investing in the best entrepreneurs in web3. She advises SoFi, and is an investor in Consensys (MetaMask), Fractal, AfterParty and Wander.
Farb has been involved in the web3 movement since 2013, having invested in BitCoin then, and is deeply passionate about the potential for this computing paradigm.
Farb has made regular appearances on Good Morning America and has been featured in the WSJ, Fortune, Forbes, CNN, Bloomberg and Fox.
In her free time, she hangs out with her twin boys, Kass and Cooper, and her husband Michael (a 3 time entrepreneur).
Justin Kan is an American web3 entrepreneur and investor. He is a cofounder of Fractal, a marketplace for gamers to discover, buy and sell durable game assets and NFTs. He’s also a General Partner at Goat Capital, a seed fund that backs entrepreneurs with over $100M in assets under management.
Previously, Justin was a cofounder of Twitch, the internet live video streaming platform. In 2006, Justin launched the live video service Justin.tv, a company that started when he strapped a camera to his head and streamed his life to the internet 24/7. Over the next 8 years, through twists and turns, he and his cofounders turned the business into Twitch, ultimately selling to Amazon in 2014 for $970 million. Over the years, he has founded half a dozen companies which have raised over $500 million in venture capital and invested in some of the fastest growing startups around, including Reddit, Cruise Automation, Bird, Rippling, SendBird, Scale AI and many more.
Previously, Justin was a cofounder of Twitch, the internet live video streaming platform. In 2006, Justin launched the live video service Justin.tv, a company that started when he strapped a camera to his head and streamed his life to the internet 24/7. Over the next 8 years, through twists and turns, he and his cofounders turned the business into Twitch, ultimately selling to Amazon in 2014 for $970 million. Over the years, he has founded half a dozen companies which have raised over $500 million in venture capital and invested in some of the fastest growing startups around, including Reddit, Cruise Automation, Bird, Rippling, SendBird, Scale AI and many more.