Epstein Secrets

0254 "IVIAVERICK" EFTA00810255 Great tech companies are being started in lots of lUir-'114ft places. Our New York base allows us to: • Avoid Silicon Valley bias • Identify and work with companies anywhere — from SF to Berlin — at a much earlier stage than Bay Area firms. • Compare opportunities across

York base allows us to: • Avoid Silicon Valley bias • Identify and work with companies anywhere — from SF to Berlin — at a much earlier stage than Bay Area firms. • Compare opportunities across geographies. We are only looking for global winners but we don't presume they will all be in California. 18

tners and available talent at all stages of the company's lifecycle. Valar believes that, in the Western World, these dynamics are most prevalent in Silicon Valley, New York, London, Berlin and Paris, and to a lesser extent, in the smaller cities that feed into the larger tech hubs (e.g., Provo, Boulder, Portl

rst choice when companies are looking to raise new financing rounds, particularly in New York (where working with a local investor is preferable to Bay Area money) and in Europe (where partnership with a US firm is viewed as a strong validation of a startups prospects). 3. In-House Research: The Interne

ady thriving areas. They include neighborhoods surrounding Manhattan, Atlantic beach towns drawing vacation-home developers, bedroom communities near Silicon Valley and anomalies like Portland, Oregon, where the entire downtown was deemed eligible for the breaks. “The phrase I keep thinking of is ‘gold rush,’ ”

nes, speaking to local officials, businesses and investors. “T have done the OZ PowerPoint God knows how many times,” Flachsbart, who grew up in the Bay Area, said from behind the wheel one day in December. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016415 --- PAGE BREAK --- Alex Flachsbart gives a presentation on opportunity zon