Stu Smith

Revenue and operations LGBTQ+ executive with twelve years of experience building and scaling successful large-scale, multi-layered teams, products, partnerships, and services for large scale global organizations, plus five years experience as an early-stage tech investor. Performance-oriented entrepreneurial strategist with proven ability to inspire and motivate teams to drive data-informed decision making and execute complex business strategies. Deep experience and network in the creator economy, tech, media, entertainment, sports, apparel, venture capital, and nonprofit industries. Co-led Coughdrop Capital's early investments in: Lattice, Superhuman, Mercury Bank, Fast, Dreamship, Zaraz, Ever Loved, Ware, Housable, Weatherwax Bio, Mood Health, Practice, Sacra, Buffalo Market, Stable and more. Formerly worked for: Teespring (Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures), Crowdsurge/Songkick (Access, Sequoia, Index), Omaze (FirstMark Capital), Red Light Management