In a galaxy not that far away, during the great SARS-COVID-Klingon incident of 2021, we were all trapped indoors, disinfecting bananas, pretending sourdough was a personality, and refreshing Twitter like it was a Bloomberg Terminal.
Somehow, in that chaos, we found each other on Stonks.
We talked shit together. Backed founders together. Invested together. Lost sleep together. Built a weird little internet casino for startup believers together.
And some of those startups did the thing.
Some of those pre-seed bets became unicorns 🦄 — Jar. US Mobile. Mesh. Hiive. And more.
Some big startup bets became wayyyy bigger than we could’ve imagined, joining the trillion-dollar club: SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI.
Some of you are sitting on 20-40X unrealized returns.
Which is cool.
But honestly?
It was about the friends we made along the way.
Okay fine. It was also about the returns.
:stonks_ios_icon: Stonks Fund is now back — run by the original founder, Ali Moiz (GP). Ably supported by Murti Hussain (GP), Gauher Aftab (Operations), Eddy Almeida (Technical Advisor).
Adam Hardej is off doing new things, not managing these funds going forward. We salute him for carrying the baton this far 🫡
Today, the Stonks family of funds is sitting at a cumulative TVPI of 2.5X since 2021, making this a **top decile family-of-funds (**2021-22 vintage) per Pitchbook, Carta and Cambridge Associates. These include: