Sahil Bloom

Who they are

Sahil Bloom is Managing Partner at SRB Ventures — left private equity at Altamont Capital to build The Curiosity Chronicle newsletter to 400k+ subscribers, then parlayed that into a $10M venture fund and a holding company of 10+ cash-flowing businesses.

Person

Sahil studied at Stanford, where he played college baseball, then went straight into private equity — working at Altamont Capital Partners, a firm managing $3.5B in capital. In January 2022 he left PE to launch SRB Ventures, a $10M seed-to-Series-C fund, at the same moment he was already building a serious content platform. The career arc is classic PE-to-founder: credibility earned inside institutions, then applied outside them. He's built several companies under his personal holding company SRB Holdings — including The Curiosity Chronicle (newsletter, 400k+ subscribers), Viralcuts (short-form video editing), HeyFriends! (YouTube growth agency), Paperboy (newsletter growth agency), Off Menu (design studio with transparent pricing), and an unnamed content ghostwriting agency. He also co-founded the 100k Club, a creator community. His public writing — across The Curiosity Chronicle, Twitter (started May 2020), and LinkedIn — covers mental models, decision-making, productivity, and a framework he calls the five types of wealth (time, social, mental, physical, financial), which became a book published by HarperCollins India. The through-line is translating institutional finance fluency into a creator-led business model, with each new product extending the same audience rather than starting fresh.

Company

SRB Ventures raised Fund I of $10 million in February 2022 — a stage- and sector-agnostic early-stage vehicle writing $100K–$250K checks into pre-seed to Series C startups globally. The fund's most recent tracked investment was a Seed round in Friendly Apps on May 26, 2022, and the firm has invested in a total of 3 companies as of 2025, including Toddle. The team is intentionally lean at 2 partners, and the firm's stated differentiation is a proprietary post-investment support platform and distribution network — Bloom's newsletter and social reach as a portfolio accelerant. Co-investors include Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, and Alumni Ventures, which signals deal access despite the fund's small size.

Market

SRB Ventures operates in the crowded early-stage venture market as a micro-fund, competing on founder access and distribution rather than check size. The firm is sector-agnostic but has touched fintech, Web3/crypto, consumer products, and enterprise software. Geopolitical tensions and regulatory uncertainty remain top concerns for venture and PE investors as of 2025, affecting deal flow and capital allocation — a headwind that disproportionately affects smaller funds without dedicated policy or compliance infrastructure.

Network

Bloom's visible collaborators sit primarily in the creator economy: Ali Abdaal (YouTuber and author) with whom he's co-paneled on creator career longevity, and Greg Isenberg with whom he's produced podcast content. On the investor side, co-investors at SRB Ventures include Andreessen Horowitz, Founders Fund, and Alumni Ventures. Chris Hutchins and Rich Roll have both hosted him as a podcast guest, extending his reach into personal finance and wellness audiences.

Ali Abdaal· Creator / Author
Greg Isenberg· Creator / Entrepreneur
Chris Hutchins· Podcast Host / Personal Finance Creator
Rich Roll· Podcast Host / Author

How they likely show up

Left a $3.5B-AUM PE firm to build a newsletter from scratch in 2020 → high tolerance for zero-to-one risk; not someone who needs institutional cover to act.
SRB Holdings spans 10+ businesses (newsletter, video editing, YouTube agency, design studio, ghostwriting agency) → runs multiple tracks simultaneously; likely operates via systems and delegation rather than deep individual focus.
The Curiosity Chronicle differentiates on mental models and frameworks (five types of wealth, decision-making heuristics) → prefers structured thinking over improvisation; will respond well to people who come with a clear model.
Publishes bi-weekly to 400k+ subscribers plus active Twitter/LinkedIn presence → comfortable being the public face; transparency and visibility are features, not accidents.
Possibly — $10M fund with only 3 portfolio companies and a 2-person team → may be deliberately slow and selective deploying capital, prioritizing fit over volume.
Speaker circuit covers decision-making, goal-setting, and life design alongside venture → blends investor identity with personal-brand operator; the two feeds reinforce each other rather than competing.

Conversation tips

→ Lead with a specific Curiosity Chronicle mental model or a piece from his 'five types of wealth' framework — he's built an intellectual system and responds to people who've actually engaged with it.
→ Ask about the mechanics of SRB Holdings, not just SRB Ventures — the holding company angle (10+ businesses, $10M+ annual revenue) is the less-covered story and likely where he spends more mental energy.
→ He played college baseball at Stanford — useful ambient context if the conversation needs a human gear-shift, but don't force it.
→ Don't treat him as purely a 'content creator' — he came up in institutional PE and thinks in financial structure; that framing will land better than creator-economy framing.
→ He has tracked over 170 books on Goodreads — if you've read something adjacent to his themes (mental models, wealth, decision-making), name it specifically; he'll engage.

Toolbox

Openers

Open on SRB Holdings — he's publicly shared that it comprises 10+ cash-flowing businesses generating over $10M in annual revenue, but most people only know the newsletter or the fund. Asking how he actually manages the portfolio operationally is a sharper entry than asking about content.
Reference the 20VC appearance where he discussed why traditional venture firms are going to lose — it's a pointed thesis from someone with a PE background, and it opens a conversation about where the fund's distribution-first model fits in a crowded micro-VC market.
Bring up The Curiosity Chronicle's origin in May 2020 — he started Twitter threads when he was still in PE, built to 500k+ before launching the fund, and the sequencing (audience first, fund second) is an unusual inversion worth unpacking.

Discovery questions

SRB Ventures leads with distribution as the post-investment value-add — how do you actually operationalize that for a B2B enterprise software company versus a consumer product?
You've written extensively about the five types of wealth as a personal framework — how does that framework shape what you're willing to invest in, or does the fund operate on a completely separate logic?
SRB Holdings spans editorial, video, design, and agency businesses alongside the venture fund — where do you see the most tension between running cash-flowing service businesses and deploying patient venture capital?

Avoid

Don't treat the newsletter as a side hustle or lead with questions about 'content strategy' — the creator platform is the core distribution asset underpinning the entire business model, and framing it as secondary will signal you haven't done the reading.

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