Mike Kerns co-founded Citizen Sports, a "stock market for athletes" that became a major Facebook and mobile sports app network before being acquired by Yahoo, giving him rare operator-level experience building sports and data products that he now applies as an investor. He started his investing career in 1999 working directly for Ron Conway at Angel Investors, L.P.—described as "Y Combinator before Y Combinator"—providing him with an unusually early view of seed investing that spans from the first dot-com era to today's creator economy deals. Mike Kerns co-founded Citizen Sports, a "stock market for athletes" that became a major Facebook and mobile sports app network before being acquired by Yahoo, giving him rare operator-level experience building sports and data products that he now applies as an investor. He started his investing career in 1999 working directly for Ron Conway at Angel Investors, L.P.—described as "Y Combinator before Y Combinator"—providing him with an unusually early view of seed investing that spans from the first dot-com era to today's creator economy deals.