Nicholas Shekerdemian is a multi-time founder who built an AI-driven recruiting platform called Headstart that uses psychometrics and contextual data to reduce hiring bias, and he started his entrepreneurial journey while studying Chinese at Oxford by creating a tutoring company for Chinese students that gained viral traction on social media. As a venture investor at The Venture Collective, he organizes his thesis around three mission buckets—world preservation, life improvement, and human empowerment—inspired by effective altruism principles, and he actively re-evaluates his investment strategy each market cycle to focus on areas where his team has genuine expertise rather than following obvious trends.