Sahil Bloom

Who they are

Sahil Bloom is Founder and Managing Partner of SRB Ventures — Stanford baseball player turned Altamont Capital PE investor who left to build The Curiosity Chronicle newsletter (800,000+ subscribers) and authored the NYT bestselling 'The 5 Types of Wealth.'

Person

Sahil double-majored in Economics and Sociology at Stanford, where he also played baseball and made two NCAA Super Regional appearances — a detail that tracks with how he thinks about performance and discipline. From Stanford he went into private equity at Altamont Capital Partners, rising to Vice President over roughly 7 years working on a fund managing $3.5 billion in capital. In May 2020 he started writing Twitter threads on finance and mental models; by 2022 The Curiosity Chronicle newsletter had taken on a life of its own, and he launched SRB Ventures — a $10 million, stage- and sector-agnostic fund — in January 2022 as the formal anchor of his investing work. He writes at sahilbloom.com and publishes The Curiosity Chronicle bi-weekly to 800,000+ subscribers covering wealth frameworks, decision-making, and intentional living; his book 'The 5 Types of Wealth' (Penguin Random House, NYT bestseller) codifies the framework — time, social, mental, physical, financial — that now anchors his keynote circuit at Microsoft, Amazon, LinkedIn, Harvard, and Columbia. Beyond the fund and newsletter, he runs SRB Holdings, a personal holding company with 10+ cash-flowing businesses including Off Menu (brand design), Viralcuts (short-form video editing), HeyFriends! (YouTube growth agency), Paperboy (newsletter growth agency), and a content ghostwriting agency. The through-line is systematic audience-to-asset conversion: each media property feeds the next business, and the PE training shows in how deliberately he has structured the portfolio.

Company

SRB Ventures raised its $10 million Fund I in February 2022 and operates as a 2-person firm — Sahil Bloom as Managing Partner alongside one partner — out of San Diego, California. The fund is stage- and sector-agnostic, writing $100K–$250K checks from pre-seed to Series A, and reserves approximately 50% of capital for follow-on investments to support portfolio companies through multiple rounds. Most recent disclosed investments include Friendly Apps (Seed round, May 2022) and Toddle. The firm differentiates through Bloom's 800,000-subscriber distribution network and a proprietary post-investment support platform rather than through fund size.

Market

SRB Ventures sits in the crowded early-stage VC segment alongside fintech, Web3, consumer, and enterprise software investors, leaning on founder relationships and media distribution as its structural edge rather than a large balance sheet. Geopolitical tensions and regulatory uncertainty remain headwinds for capital allocation across the PE and VC industry broadly. At $10 million under management with 3 portfolio companies disclosed as of 2025, SRB Ventures is nano-fund scale — more operator-investor vehicle than institutional fund.

Network

Bloom orbits the creator-investor overlap: Ali Abdaal (productivity creator, UK) and Greg Isenberg (startup builder and content creator) are documented collaborators. On the investor side, co-investors at SRB Ventures include Alumni Ventures, Founders Fund, and Andreessen Horowitz. Podcast relationships with Rich Roll, Chris Hutchins, Hoda Kotb, and Ted Seides (Capital Allocators) give him reach into both mainstream wellness and institutional finance audiences.

Ali Abdaal· Creator / entrepreneur
Greg Isenberg· Startup builder and content creator
Rich Roll· Podcast host
Chris Hutchins· Podcast host (All the Hacks)
Ted Seides· Host, Capital Allocators podcast

How they likely show up

7 years rising to VP in private equity at Altamont Capital → trained to build structured frameworks around ambiguous decisions; he likely maps problems into systems before acting.
Built The Curiosity Chronicle to 800,000+ subscribers and SRB Holdings to 10+ businesses simultaneously → high agency, runs multiple workstreams in parallel, probably finds single-track operators slow.
Role type flagged as 'hybrid' (investor + creator + operator) → doesn't separate thinking from doing; expect him to riff on frameworks in conversation and want to apply them immediately.
Tracked 170+ books on Goodreads and writes in a notebook daily → processes ideas in writing; he'll likely have thought more carefully about a topic than he lets on.
Active keynote speaker at Microsoft, Amazon, Harvard, Columbia, LinkedIn → comfortable commanding a room, used to shaping the narrative; he'll appreciate a crisp agenda and concrete questions over open-ended check-ins.
Possibly — two NCAA Super Regional appearances at Stanford baseball → competitive and comfortable with public performance under pressure; likely respects people who've done hard things, not just talked about them.

Conversation tips

→ Reference a specific Curiosity Chronicle issue or a concrete idea from 'The 5 Types of Wealth' — he'll know immediately whether you've actually read it or just skimmed the headline.
→ Frame your ask or topic in terms of one of his five wealth types (time, social, mental, physical, financial) — it's his operating vocabulary and he responds to people who speak it fluently.
→ Ask about the PE-to-creator transition specifically — leaving a VP role at a $3.5B fund is a real bet, and he has a deliberate story about it that he enjoys telling when the question is sharp.
→ Don't open with 'how do I grow a newsletter' generics — he's answered that a thousand times; go a layer deeper, e.g. how he thinks about converting audience to investable deal flow.
→ He keeps his own site at sahilbloom.com — if you've read something there and can cite a specific piece, lead with that; it signals you went to the source.

Toolbox

Openers

Open on SRB Holdings — he publicly announced a personal holding company with 10+ cash-flowing businesses including Off Menu (brand design), Viralcuts, and Paperboy; ask how he thinks about managing operator attention across that many entities while still running a VC fund.
Reference his 2022 appearance on 20VC where he argued traditional venture firms are going to lose — that's a pointed claim and worth revisiting four years on now that the nano-fund model has more data.
Mention the Cofounder Mode card game — a tool he built to help founding teams discuss wealth beyond financial runway; it's a niche, specific project that shows you went past the newsletter to find the weirder stuff.

Discovery questions

SRB Ventures reserves roughly 50% of the fund for follow-ons — at a $10 million fund size, how do you decide which of your 3 portfolio companies earns that capital versus a new deal?
The Curiosity Chronicle went from Twitter threads to 800,000 subscribers largely pre-algorithmic-shift — what's your honest read on whether that distribution moat is still replicable for someone starting today?
You came from PE at Altamont where you were working on a $3.5 billion portfolio — how has writing $100K–$250K checks changed how you evaluate a business, if at all?

Avoid

Don't ask generic 'what's your morning routine' or productivity-habit questions — he's answered them exhaustively across 20+ podcast appearances and will give you the canned version; go to the business specifics instead.

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