About Rick Desai

Investing and building brands at Listen. Founded Dashfire to build startups. Teach at Kellogg to help entrepreneurs mitigate risk, not seek it. Became inspired after learning from micro-entrepreneurs in India. Grew up outside of Detroit, at Georgetown, and in banking and private equity. My investor mantra is simple. Founders are the drivers of innovation. They take the most risk. They create the most impact. The best investor knows that they are a small part of a founders story. Accordingly, they should go out of their way to support their founders, regardless of how unscalable or unsustainable.