Jack MosbacherInvestor

United States - San Francisco Bay Area

It's been a weird, wonderful path - I've spent time in outfields and batters boxes, policy centers and African oil fields, opera houses, Broadway stages, arenas, and dive bars. My writing has been featured in Foreign Affairs, The Washington Quarterly, and The Los Angeles Times, and I've gotten to play music alongside artists like Zac Brown, Vince Gill, Train, Michael Franti, Matt Nathanson, and Jimmy Buffett. I've also gotten be a tiny part of teams that have invested in world-changing companies like Allbirds, Instacart, Uber, Facebook, Palantir, and Stripe. I also am proud to have invested directly in companies like Rivian and Proterra (EVs), Sila and Uplight (clean energy/batteries), and ClearCo (fintech).

The only thing that ties it together is a love for passionate people with interesting stories, big ideas, and love in their hearts.

I'm now partnered with two of the best guys I know - Sean Koffel and Pat Dillingham - at Watchfire Ventures, investing in the next generation of American consumer companies. It's the best job in the world. We spend our days scouring the country for passionate founders with big, bold ideas that will define what and how we eat, what we wear and where we buy it, what we enjoy and how we enjoy it, where and how we live our lives, and who we are - both as individuals and as one big, American community.