Reilly Flynn is both a founder-CEO of Lome and Co-founder/Managing Partner of GAN Ventures, giving him an active operator's perspective while investing in other founders. He begins every diligence meeting by asking founders "What are you building and why?" and evaluates investments heavily on how clearly entrepreneurs can articulate both their product and their deeper personal motivation.

• Values mission-driven leadership and businesses that integrate social good with market intervention. He frequently highlights organizations that aim to nurture the human spirit or solve wicked global issues, such as pointing out the work Mile High Workshop does to transform lives through employment.
• Focuses on practical execution and the shift from theory to action. He appreciates advice that urges founders to stop acting like students and start behaving like entrepreneurs, alongside the strategy of using a specific guiding purpose or north star to reverse engineer a path to success.
• Deeply embedded in the accelerator ecosystem and connecting startups to global networks. He consistently engages with the Global Accelerator Network and views major events like SXSW as critical opportunities for founders to match with the right accelerator programs.
• Appreciates thoughtful design and tangible innovation in technology. He takes notice of specific user experience details, such as the scroll function on a MacOS preview, and shares enthusiasm for unexpected R&D developments like Disney working on wireless charging resonance.
• Shows interest in modernizing traditional industries through software. He celebrated a startup raising capital to improve the mortgage industry and identified a customer relationship management platform specifically built for nonprofits as a top technology contender.