Turner Novak is the founder and solo General Partner of Banana Capital, a seed-stage venture fund investing in internet-first founders. He grew up in Winnipeg, Canada, in a single-parent household with intermittent internet access, then built a career path from CFA studies and endowment investing to VC entirely through Twitter presence and a viral fantasy portfolio. He hosts The Peel podcast, writes The Split newsletter, and operates from Ann Arbor, Michigan - proving that Midwest contrarianism and relentless online engagement can be a genuine edge in consumer tech investing.
Nikhil Krishnan is the founder and 'Thinkboi' behind Out-of-Pocket, a healthcare newsletter and education platform that makes the bewildering business of American healthcare funny, accessible, and actually worth reading. A Brooklyn-based writer, creator, and early-stage investor, Krishnan grew up in a family of physicians and parlayed a career in healthcare research at CB Insights and clinical trial partnerships at TrialSpark into one of the most original media brands in health tech - one that includes a newsletter with 30,000+ subscribers, educational crash courses, a medical bankruptcy card game, a children's book about clinical trials, hackathons, and a scout fund backing early-stage healthcare startups.
Trung Phan is a Canadian writer, newsletter author, and co-founder who built one of the internet's most entertaining business media brands. His Saturday newsletter SatPost mixes deep-dive tech and business analysis with viral memes, earning him 725k+ Twitter followers and tens of thousands of Substack subscribers. A former equity analyst, Kensho Technologies researcher, and The Hustle writer, Phan is descended from Vietnam's most famous anti-colonial revolutionary, Phan Boi Chau - a lineage that sits somewhere between irony and destiny for a man who now runs his own media empire from a laptop.