Josh Schlisserman is a solo GP at Picks & Shovels who focuses exclusively on picks and shovels infrastructure for crypto and fintech while serving as employee #1 and Chief of Staff at Series, a crypto-enabled financial infrastructure company, giving him live operator context inside the type of companies he backs. He's known for writing very small $0-100k pre-seed and seed checks as true first money in, often committing before a lead is set, and has built his reputation through an unusually academic obsession with the business of VC itself rather than just founder access. Josh Schlisserman is a solo GP at Picks & Shovels who focuses exclusively on picks and shovels infrastructure for crypto and fintech while serving as employee #1 and Chief of Staff at Series, a crypto-enabled financial infrastructure company, giving him live operator context inside the type of companies he backs. He's known for writing very small $0-100k pre-seed and seed checks as true first money in, often committing before a lead is set, and has built his reputation through an unusually academic obsession with the business of VC itself rather than just founder access.