Jack Raines

Jack Raines is a writer, investor, and proud personality hire; the order of those labels depends on who’s asking. After playing football at Mercer University, Jack graduated with degrees in finance and Spanish, spending the next 18 months working in corporate finance before realizing he didn’t want to spend the next 18 years doing the same thing. He promptly quit his job, bought a one-way ticket to Barcelona, and spent the next year writing a blog, working for a finance meme page, and visiting 25 countries before moving to New York for business school. While at Columbia, Jack joined Robinhood, helping them build a subsidiary media company, Sherwood News, before leaving to join Slow Ventures, an early-stage venture capital fund. Today, Jack “lives” in San Francisco, though he spends as much time as he can in New York, he recently picked up tennis, and he spends his time writing and looking for the next billion-dollar company to invest in