Mark Neyer

Mark Neyer will put his hand on a hot stove if he’s convinced the expected value is positive enough.

In the best case, he makes odd bets that pay out handsomely. In the worst case, he gets a good story and a lesson learned. 

Mark has been a Wall Street engineer, an early Uber employee, and worked at Silicon Valley companies such as Facebook, Google, and Snapchat. He has made a large number of terrible investments, and a small number of brilliant ones — or he is borderline insane and wildly lucky, depending on who you ask.

Many people have told him, “You’ve gotta let someone else talk.”  That is why he writes: to slow down, pay attention, and find the boundary between what he believes and what he merely thinks might be true.

Mark lives with his wife and children in Cincinnati, Ohio. He’s a youth football announcer, casual angel investor, and part-time blogger. His writing has been featured on Medium, and his book of poems on Amazon earned a five-star review from his mother.