Josh Buckley taught himself to code as a teenager, sold a game community at 15, joined Y Combinator around 18, and grew from an angel investor into running Buckley Ventures, which now manages more than $1 billion—an unusual jump from founder to large solo-run fund. Buckley Ventures invests across stages, from seed deals to leading $100 million rounds like Playco's Series A—where Buckley, not Sequoia, set the price and took the board seat—and looks for founders with strong market fit even when they aren't the most hyped, paying close attention to details like customer acquisition costs; Buckley's own background as former CEO of Product Hunt also gives the fund unusual ties to the product and startup community.