Author: Reid Hoffman

DAVID S. ROSE is a serial entrepreneur, Inc 500 CEO and one of the world”s most active angel investors. Described by Forbes as “New York”s Archangel, ” by Business Week as a “world conquering entrepreneur, ” and by Red Herring as “patriarch of Silicon Alley”, David has founded or funded over 90 high tech companies. He is the founder and CEO of Gust, the international collaboration platform for startup financing used by over 50, 000 accredited angel investors, 1000 angel groups and venture capital funds, and 250, 000 entrepreneurs. Gust received the SIIA CODi E Award for Best Collaboration Solution in both 2012 and 2013, as well as the 2012 SWIFT/Innotribe Award as the world”s most innovative financial technology company. David is also Managing Partner of Rose Tech Ventures, an early stage angel fund; Founder and Chairman Emeritus of New York Angels, the most active angel group in America; and Associate Founder and Founding Track Chair for Finance, Entrepreneurship and Economics at Singularity University, the Google/NASA-sponsored post-graduate program in exponential technologies. A native New Yorker, David has a BA from Yale University, an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School, and a D. Eng. h.c. from Stevens Institute of Technology.