742 - Chris McCann, General Partner at Race Capital

<p><strong>About Chris McCann</strong></p><p>Chris McCann is a general partner at <a href="https://race.capital/">Race Capital</a>, entrepreneur, and community builder. Prior, Chris founded and led the community program at Greylock Partners, a San Francisco based venture capital firm with $3.5 billion under management which led investments in Facebook, LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Coinbase, among others. Chris has an angel portfolio of over twenty investments within the fintech and blockchain verticals including: Binance, Solana, Serum, among others.</p><p>Before he joined the firm, he was the co-founder and CEO of StartupDigest – of the earliest technology focused publications – which he grew from zero to over one million subscribers before being acquired by Techstars. He was an early advisor for the Thiel Fellowship &amp; StartX at Stanford University. He also writes a <a href="https://www.chrismccann.com/newsletter">newsletter </a>covering the fintech &amp; tech sectors and reaches 15,000 entrepreneurs, engineers, and investors on a weekly basis.</p><p><strong><a rel="payment" title="★ Support this podcast ★" href="https://forwardthinking.substack.com/">★ Support this podcast ★</a></strong></p>