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Anthony Pompliano Is Going Full Tilt To Invest In World-Class Blockchain And Crypto Asset Ventures

Anthony Pompliano, Managing Partner at Full Tilt Capital

Anthony Pompliano is the Managing Partner at Full Tilt Capital, an early stage venture capital firm. Full Tilt Capital focuses exclusively on investing in world-class companies in the blockchain and crypto asset space. 

"Pomp" was raised in Raleigh, NC, and is one of the first south easterners that we have had on the Ambition Today podcast. He is the oldest brother of five and during his junior year of college, he was deployed to Iraq. During his deployment, he gained a unique perspective on life. His world traveling allowed him to learn about new cultures all around the world in order study human behavior. Once he returned from duty, he jumped into the world of Silicon Valley. He built two small technology businesses and worked for large tech companies like Facebook and Snapchat before starting Full Tilt Capital. Anthony brings us his knowledge, unique insight, and more on this episode of Ambition Today: 

  • Life lessons from being deployed to Iraq
  • Building and selling his first technology business
  • What it was like working for Facebook
  • Full Tilt Capital's investment thesis
  • How important a founders self-honesty is 
  • Why GPU will beat CPU's in the future
  • The story of Standard American Mining
  • Why Full Tilt is going all in on blockchain companies and crypto assets
  • How to build a successful Angel List Syndicate

Ambition Today Question of the Day™ :
"How do you think about and manage your personal brand, and also find time to get your day to day operations work done and build Full Tilt?

The Single Greatest Piece of Advice Anthony Has Ever Learned:
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Quote Of The Episode:
"You don't have to be honest with me. I want you to be, but you don't have to be. You have to be honest with yourself." 

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