Brooks Gibbins co-founded FinTech Collective after helping build and exit three notable companies across three continents, including FAST which sold to Microsoft for over $1 billion, bringing rare operating experience to early-stage fintech investing. He focuses on the infrastructure behind wealth and retirement systems rather than consumer apps, and has been investing in institutional crypto and digital assets since 2014 while maintaining a hands-on approach with meaningful ownership stakes in fewer than 5% of companies he evaluates.

• Analyzes the intersection of finance and data management, specifically how technology improves data interactions within banking. Specific examples include praising BankSimple for using search technology to transform data accessibility, tracking the rise of peer to peer lenders like Funding Circle, and adding to Marc Andreessen software theories by emphasizing that mastering data is just as important as the software itself.
• Advocates for practical startup methodologies and the specific psychological traits required to be a successful founder. Values founders who are persistent, persuasive, and visionary, and promotes lean approaches like modeling, measuring, and pivoting. Also appreciates foundational problem solving frameworks like root cause analysis using the five whys, and believes that compelling storytelling must sit at the absolute center of product development.
• Tracks health technology innovation and personal wellness closely, which provides an excellent personal angle for building rapport. Follows developments in electronic medicine and the hard data proving the value of healthcare innovation. On a personal level, frequently discusses fitness commitments like a daily ten minute stretching challenge, regular yoga practices, adding cognitive brain training to physical routines, and evaluating the negative dietary impacts of sugar.