Intrepid

Intrepid is a financial technology company that brings innovation, inspiration, and opportunity to every entrepreneur and business in the creator economy.

Our core product "Superstar" is a creator marketing management software designed to automate the way data-driven marketing teams operate. It offers an integrated platform to manage the entire lifecycle of creator marketing campaigns. 

The objective is to streamline processes from the creator discovery phase to payments, all while leveraging data-driven insights and fostering enhanced collaboration among stakeholders.

I recruit customers, partners and lead our global community.

Co-Founder | Community | Growth 

Activate America

Producer of Amplified Avondale https://www.instagram.com/amplifiedavondale/ 

Activate America leads urban transformation and regenerative placemaking projects, creating vibrant cultural hubs for economic revitalization and fosters community connection and cultural diversity.

As the Founder and CEO of Activate America, I orchestrated a transformative journey that significantly impacted the local community. We've achieved remarkable milestones:

Community Development: Our festival transitioned from a homogenous gathering into a diverse and inclusive event, with over 1,000 monthly attendees representing a rich tapestry of backgrounds, fostering an inclusive sense of community and cultural diversity.

Revenue Growth: Doubled and tripled revenue for local merchants, contributing to the economic vitality of the community.

Urban Revitalization: Pioneered the creation of a net-new entertainment district, catalyzing urban revitalization and cultural enrichment.

Founder and CEO

Delivering over a hundred keynote speeches, panels, and moderated discussions on Fintech, Modern Banking, Web3, Blockchain, AI, and the Future of Work.

Translating deep tech trends into human-centric insights, driven by my entrepreneurial, executive recruiting, and advisory background.

Public Speaker

Silver Creek Partners

Full time through 2016, select long term clients through 2023. Global reach.
Key Contributions:

Recruited and onboarded over 2500 professionals, driving substantial revenue growth and innovation for diverse organizations. Hundreds of customers from idea stage to F50.
Functional areas: Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Corporate Development
Roles: CSuite to individual contributor.
Google, SAP, SingTel, AIA, Flipt, Anheiser Busch, Salesforce,

Key Accomplishments:
Scaled startup engineering teams from initial hires to robust units of up to 40 engineers.

Led talent acquisition for a HealhTech startup from idea to a teams 140+ employees.

Led talent acquisition efforts for a Fortune 100 electronics manufacturer, resulting in 35 senior manager and executive hires within 12 months.

Scaled a Fortune 50 insurance company's newly formed division from a single employee to 35 senior hires in just 18 months, including relocating 25 senior executives to Singapore.

Oversaw organizational design and talent acquisition for a corporate development and Innovation business unit, culminating in 14 executive-level hires.

Drove early success for startups, consistently recruiting first customers in zero to one environments.

Founder | Executive Recruiter

Intrepid Ventures

Intrepid Ventures was a Blockchain and Web3 startup studio and innovation lab for founders and chief innovation officers.

Customer-facing leader with a proven track record of success in growing and engaging communities, launching successful events, and building relationships in the blockchain and Web3 space.

Grew a global invite-only community from 0 to 30,000+ members in 18 months. Community led insights and guidance helped to shape the thinking of community members and position them for success in the rapidly evolving blockchain and Web3 space.

Developed and launched more than 20 sponsored events across Southeast Asia through ecosystem partners including Visa, Prudential, AIA, IFC World Bank, IBM, and others, attracting over 10,000 attendees. 

Facilitated community-driven innovation and collaboration, resulting in the launch of multiple successful blockchain/crypto products across insurance, fintech, security, and gaming.

Intrepid Ventures | Co-Founder | Blockchain & Web3 Venture Studio

Creator Economy | Influencer Marketing | Community | Sales and Partnerships | Recruiting

I help Influencer Marketing teams unify, automate, and scale their operations so they can focus on growth vs. administrative tasks.


I've recruited and helped build amazing teams (onboarded 2500+ professionals).
I've designed and built global communities from zero to 30K+.
Designed, launched and produced 18 Music and Art Festivals, 5 large scale conferences and 100+ events
Co-founded 4 startups in  Blockchain, Healthech, Fintech and AI/Automation.

Zach Piester

Avinash "Avi" Gandhi

Building Creator Logic, the Bloomberg of the Creator Economy. Join 28,000+ Creatorpreneurs becoming their own managers through interviews, frameworks, and case studies at CreatorLogic.com. DM to partner.

My mission is to build the Creator Middle Class by helping Creators and Companies win together. 

I've spent 15 years helping Creators and companies build businesses hand in hand, as a talent agent, manager, producer, and executive at companies like WME, Wheelhouse, and Patreon. I've seen nanoinfluencers make six figures and watched million-scale Creators go bankrupt. The difference between the two is how they approach their businesses - their "Creator logic"!

Our first offering is the Creator Logic newsletter, which currently reaches 28,000+ Creators.

We also produce written and short-form video across social (@thecreatorlogic) and have brought together over 500 Creators to date at events and meetups in Southern California, New York, Baltimore, and London.

We offer 15 years of Creator-native knowledge and experience as Advisors to companies serving Creators but not native to the Creator Economy, helping them better build for, sell to, and succeed with Creators. Past and present clients include Discord, TubeBuddy, and Point72 Ventures. 

Soon we are launching paid community and product offerings to help Creators better monetize, through education and access to otherwise gatekept opportunities. 

If you're interested in exploring ways we can work together, please don't hesitate to message me or reach out via email - avi@creatorlogic.com.

Thanks!

Avi Gandhi (Creator Logic)

It's time. I'm nervous but excited to announce my new business, Creator Access Network! Let me tell you about it:

I spent the last 3 years experimenting my way into the Creator Middle Class.

Many experiments failed:

- Community - lost money (2x)
- Course - nobody bought it (embarassing)
- Accountants - fired two to find the right one
- Newsletter - 3 years, 200+ articles, $6000+ in platform fees, still <10% of my income

I spent over $10,000 before any of this stuff paid off, and much of it didn't - consulting/advising is still my primary income source.

But for many Creators, that's the price of figuring out what works. Every Creator I talk to has a version of this story.

There's no shortcut around the experimentation, and any two Creators who appear similar often have completely different businesses, arrived at through trial and error.

You try stuff because you have to - but it shouldn't be so expensive.

And now, it isn't.

I spent the last six months leveraging 15 years of industry relationships to negotiate exclusive deals with 30+ of the best companies in the Creator Economy — discounts, rev shares, and rates you cannot get anywhere else.

The result is Creator Access Network: a single membership with $6,000+ in savings on the best tools, platforms, and services in the Creator Economy.

(Your product not in it but should be? DM me)

Think of it like this: big Creators get better deals because companies want their followings. The rest of us get standard rates.

CAN changes that. I've negotiated on behalf of our members the way a (good) manager negotiates on behalf of their clients.

As a result, many of our discounts and revshare improvements are worth a multiple on the full cost of membership.

Full launch price in mid-April will $199/year, with a money-back guarantee if you try and can't cover the cost in savings or earnings.

Pre-orders are live right now at $79/year for life, the lowest it will ever be. 

If you're a Creator, or even considering building a Creator business, our membership will be worth it. 

Check out https://lnkd.in/gNksaR2s for our full list of 30+ current partners. We'll be adding dozens more in the months to come.

Powering the Creator Middle Class via Creator Access Network. CreatorAccessNetwork.com

Control what you can control.

I’m launching my new business in April.

A few weeks ago, a marketing partner of mine told me “Great, we have plenty of time. Let’s chat in March.”

But I know how it goes.

I’d follow up in March.

Wouldn’t hear for a week, because people are busy.

Then we’d get into onboarding, but they have lots of clients so it would go slow.

And inevitably, we would not be ready for launch, or we would be sloppy about it to get started in time.

So I just lied.

I said “Oh, but I wanna do a pre-launch campaign in March, so we should start now.”

They said “OK,let’s hop on a call.”

Took a week to schedule.

Took another week and a half to get the actual onboarding process started.

Now we are in onboarding. That’s supposed to take 2 weeks, but I bet it takes 4.

And that means we will be ready to go 1-2 weeks ahead of time.

Just enough to handle an inevitable last minute change or crisis.

I can’t see the future, so I’m just trying to control what I can control.

And sometimes that means telling a white lie in the best interest of both parties.

How do you control what you can control?

📸 Something else I can control: my appearance.

Picture of Avi Gandhi wearing jeans, boots, a button up, and bomber jacket on his way to control what he can control

This VC has 90 celebrity investors, money in 4 unicorns, and gets most of his deal flow...from Instagram?

I sat down with Marshall Sandman, co-founder of Animal Capital, to find out why:

1. Seed stage funds have to create alpha out of thin air. 

In Marshall's words:

"The Andreessens, the Founders Funds — they're indexing. They might invest in every single Y Combinator startup and they're totally fine when 60% or 90% fail. It doesn't matter to them. 

Seed stage funds have to go out and create alpha out of thin air. I would just like for a few more of those founders to show up at my door."

His answer was a daily Instagram Reel series targeting 300 videos. He's on Day 48.

2. Why Instagram and not LinkedIn? 

"Founders are scrolling Instagram at 1am to turn their brains off."

He'd know. He built Animal Capital by cold DMing 3,000 celebrities to find investors.  

80% of that outreach was on Instagram. 

LinkedIn is where founders go when they're in work mode. There's value in that - it's how I've built my own business.

But Instagram is where they actually live.

3. Keep the content tight, focused, and high value.

"If all you take away from today's video is that convertible notes are cheaper to raise than equity rounds — that's the takeaway."

Every video comes from a question someone sent him in the DMs.

He's responded to roughly 300 DMs and 90% of comments over the last 48 days. 

He knows it won't scale. He thinks it's worth it anyway.

40 founders have already reached out. 

Brian Kelly (The Points Guy) slid into his DMs. 

People are asking to invest in the fund itself.

"Even if one great founder comes out of 300 videos, I will have done my job."

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Marshall's content playbook is what I call the Reverse Monetization Model in practice. 

Marshall isn't selling to his audience — he's using content to acquire the thing that matters most to his business: proprietary deal flow.

He's offering to give people money, they're coming to him, and he's picking winners who will generate him a much higher ROI. 

Hence, "reverse monetization".

It's also a reminder that your audience isn't necessarily where you think they are. While ICPs are a useful tool, customers are human beings with full lives outside of work - even in B2B.

Follow Marshall at @marshallsandman on Instagram. Worth the follow.

What other B2B Creators and businesses have you seen work OUTSIDE the B2B content ecosystem of LinkedIn, email, and podcasts?

Instagram post by Marshall Sandman of Animal Capital talking about how a founder should pay themselves 

Negotiations don't have to be so serious.

I sent this meme to Dani Zacarias during our partnership negotiation to bring on SendOwl for my new company, Creator Access Network.

She laughed and gave me an extra six months.

(Of what? You'll find out soon!)

Build strong relationships and have more fun.

You'll probably end up doing better business overall!

Wanna see what we were negotiating? Check out https://lnkd.in/g5gWx7WP

MORE meme featuring Kylo Ren from Star Wars

Everyone complaining about the new (female) XBox CEO is just averting their eyes from the crime that’s already been committed.

Phil Spencer’s the one who is guilty of destroying XBox. 

He didn’t do it fast, either. 

He made it slow, with many years of bad decisions and worse programming.

Long-term poisoning. 

A thousand cuts. 

An insidious cancer.

But yea, let’s get mad about the new CEO who hasn’t even done anything yet.

When the “gamer guy” y’all are “wishing well”already destroyed what you and I used to love.

🙄

AI image of Phil Spencer pouring poison on an Xbox

What are the best startups raising money in the Creator Economy right now?
I want to know which ones are:

- Raising Seed, Series A, or Series B
- Serving a huge segment of Creators by solving a painful problem
- Launched product with signs of product-market fit (Seed) or actual product-market fit and meaningful revenue (Series A+) 
- Great economics (profitable or obvious path to profitability)
- Seeking funds to supercharge revenue and/or profit growth 

Let me know - I'd love to connect them to the fund I advise!

It is absolutely bonkers to me that there's a company that can tell you which of your customers are influencers AND give you all their social data:

- content category
- follower counts
- view counts
- bio content
- bio link info
- if they do brand deals, promote affiliates, have OF, sell merch, etc.
- like 20 other things

Across YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, X, Twitch, and more....

And you're not using them to supercharge your marketing.

Comment "data" if you want to learn more and I'll DM you.

What to do after getting laid off….

Start a business. Maybe not your dream, but the new reality of the world.

You were meant for more than filing TPS reports so your CEO can get a $100M bonus for laying you off.

Corporate jobs are a fairly new concept, born out of the Industrial Revolution.

Before that, you either worked for a government entity (the minority - these jobs were #goals) or you were partn of a small business.

- Farmers selling at market
- Shops and taverns and their owners and staff
- Blacksmiths, weavers, dressmakers, cobblers, carpenters, and other tradespeople and their apprentices

Then the Industrial and Computer and Internet Revolutions happened and created huge corporations filled with millions of white collar workers.

For a while, those jobs paid really well.

Now, a gallon of milk is $5, a $5 burger is $15, and rent and childcare together cost more than the median income of the US.

And with 23% effective unemployment (accounting for people who are making poverty wages or have given up), companies have no incentive to raise salaries.

As corporate jobs are quickly eliminated and wages decline, I believe we're going to return to a new paradigm of small businesses entrepreneurship and employment.

Primarily housed on the internet.

Entirely driven by content.

That's the thesis behind my new business, Creator Access Network - to help enable this new small business paradigm and build the Creator Middle Class.

Because corporate jobs aren't how anyone is going to achieve the American Dream anymore.

Agree?

P.S. Thanks Dani Zacarias for a great conversation. I always think bigger when we chat! Excited to have SendOwl as a partner in CAN!

Everyone wants big celebrities and influencers as their customer...but I don't.

They don't need me, and I don't need them.

Creator Access Network offers the absolute best discounts, rates, and revshares on the market for the top Creator software, platforms, products, and services.

Think 
- 60 free trials when the standard is 14 days
- 25%-50% discounts on monthly and annual software subscriptions
- A free URL for 5 years
- Up to $400 cash for using a business banking and credit card account
- 80/20 revshare on affiliate commissions for 20,000+ brands (industry standard is 70/30)

And a ton more.

Creators making millions probably don't care about saving a few hundred bucks.

Creators focused on getting more views to drive AdSense and brand deals probably aren't investing in other ways to make money.

Creators who have figured out their business models are probably more interested in scaling than experimenting. 

And that's all OK.

There are millions of people making content and trying to figure out how to turn that content into income.

The only way they'll succeed is if they try stuff.

Creator Access Network is for the Creator Middle Class and those aspiring to it - the solopreneurs and Creators building and experimenting to move their businesses forward, so they can try more, spend less, and keep more of what they earn.

Right now, we're offering the lowest price we will ever offer for those who pre-order membership - just $79/year forever. 

We'll increase the price to $89/year once our beta goes live week of March 29th, and once we fully launch week of April 13th, membership will cost $199/year.

I guarantee you will either save or earn enough to cover the cost of membership within a year or your money back.

If you're building as a Creator of any kind, join now - https://lnkd.in/gNksaR2s

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