Smart Humans with Slava Rubin

Milind Mehere is an award-winning entrepreneur with a track record of building large scalable businesses and creating new product categories.  Milind is the Founder and CEO of Yieldstreet, a next-generation digital investment platform reimagining the way wealth is created by providing access to private markets previously reserved only for institutions and the ultra-wealthy. Yieldstreet was named F...

Swati Chaturvedi is the co-founder and CEO of Propel(x) – an investment platform that enables accredited investors worldwide to invest in alternatives, including investments in startups, hedge funds and venture capital funds. Ms. Chaturvedi has a long history of working in the alternative investments space and is the founder of the MIT Alumni Angel Investors group. She founded and led the group 20...

Anthony Scaramucci is the founder and managing partner of SkyBridge, a global alternative investment firm, and founder and chairman of SALT, a global thought leadership forum and venture studio.    Prior to founding SkyBridge in 2005, Scaramucci co-founded investment partnership Oscar Capital Management, which was sold to Neuberger Berman in 2001. Earlier, he worked in Private Wealth Management at...

Jenny Fielding is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at The Fund, a global founder community and pre-seed venture capital fund that has invested in over 200 companies. Previously, Jenny spent 7.5 years as the Managing Director at Techstars where she was the first check into a portfolio of companies with a current market cap of over $12 Billion. Jenny is a 2x founder, recovering lawyer, Kauffman F...

Eli is the Co-Founder of Betterment, a robo-advisor managing over $30 billion of investments. After leaving a career in corporate law in 2007, he served as the company’s co-founding COO and President for 10 years to build the largest independent robo-advisor in the U.S.  As a board member, Eli continues to steward Betterment’s growth while advising groundbreaking companies such as Masterworks and...

Artem has 10+ years of finance experience in food, agriculture, and farmland. Prior to founding FarmTogether, Artem was CFO at Full Harvest, a B2B platform for buying and selling produce. He also previously worked at Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, E&Y, and PwC. Artem holds an MBA from The Wharton School.

Ryan Chang is an entrepreneur, collector, and artist.  He has one of the top sneaker collections and helped move sneakers forward as an investable asset class. Ryan sold Kanye West ‘Grammy Worn’ Nike Air Yeezy 1 Prototypes from 2008 for a record-breaking $1.8 million in 2021 - The world record for most expensive sneaker sale. He is also the Founder and Chief Curator of Applied Arts which provides...

Stephan Paternot is Co-Founder & Executive Chairman of Slated, the leading online film packaging, financing, and distribution marketplace, supplying the exploding global demand for great content. In 2004, Stephan co-founded PalmStar, a film production and financing company that has produced and financed over 30 films including Hereditary (2018), Collateral Beauty (2016), Sing Street (2016) and...

Ezra Levine is the CEO of Collectable, leading the company’s efforts to democratize the sports card & memorabilia industry by providing investment and ownership opportunities to sports fans, collectors, and investors of all income brackets. Collectable has completed over $50M in fractionalized sports collectibles offerings since their September 2020 launch.  As of April 2022, investors have en...

Gary Vaynerchuk is a serial entrepreneur, and serves as the Chairman of VaynerX,  the CEO of VaynerMedia and the Creator & CEO of VeeFriends. Known as “GaryVee” he is described as one of the most forward thinkers in business - he acutely recognizes trends and patterns early to help others understand how these shifts impact markets and consumer behavior. Whether its emerging artists, esports, N...

Tom Gearing is CEO of Cult Wines, a top wine investment platform. Tom has grown Cult Wines from a burgeoning start-up to an award-winning global company with six offices across the United Kingdom, North America, and Asia Pacific. Tom’s expertise, entrepreneurship and knowledge of wines have been widely regarded and he is regularly quoted in the New York Times, Financial Times, and Wall Street Jour...

Congressman Patrick McHenry is serving his ninth term as the representative for North Carolina's 10th Congressional District since starting in 2005. He has become a leader on crowdfunding, capital formation, and other forms of disruptive finance. In the 116th Congress, Congressman McHenry was elected as the Republican Leader of the House Financial Services Committee. Additionally, Congressman McHe...

Scott Lynn is a serial entrepreneur and passionate art collector.  He is the Founder and CEO of Masterworks.io , a platform making it possible to invest in multimillion-dollar works from artists like Banksy, Kaws, Basquiat, and more. In 2021 the platform reached unicorn status. In 2014, Scott founded Payability, a digital lending provider. Scott has been an active collector of contemporary art for...

Sahil Lavingia is a founder, investor, and author. He is founder & CEO of Gumroad which exists to help every creative earn a living selling the stuff they make directly to their audience. He used the new equity crowdfunding rules in 2021 for Gumroad to be the first ever company to raise $5m from the crowd. He also founded SHL Capital, which invests more than $15 million a year in early-stage s...

Nat Turner is currently CEO of Collectors Holdings after taking CLCT private from the Nasdaq for nearly $1 Billion. The holding company is focused on the collectibles industry - including PSA (trading card grading), PCGS (coin grading), Wata Games (video game grading), and Goldin Auctions. Before Collectors Holdings, Nat built and exited two companies - Flatiron Health, a technology company focuse...

Mary-Catherine Lader is Chief Operating Officer of Uniswap Labs, the top DeFi platform by marketcap. She previously was a Managing Director at BlackRock, and Chief Operating Officer of the firm’s Digital Wealth business and head of its climate tech business, Aladdin Sustainability. BlackRock has nearly $10 Trillion in assets under management, serving retail and institutional investors across the w...

Joe Lonsdale is the managing partner at 8VC, a US-based venture capital firm which manages $5 billion in committed capital. He was an early institutional investor in many notable companies including Wish, Oculus (acq. Facebook), Guardant Health (NASDAQ: GH), Oscar (NYSE: OSCR), Illumio, Anduril,, Flexport, Joby Aviation, and Orca Bio. Joe has been on the Forbes 100 Midas List since 2016 and was th...