Adrian Stone - Angel Investor, Founder, Mentor & US - Australian Entrepreneur
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We sat down with one of Australia's most prolific and unknown Angel Investors. Adrian Stone, who created Australia's first ever incubator, Angel Cube and has been advising, mentoring and investing in the countries best talent for over 20 years. Drawing upon his direct experience as an entrepreneur who traversed to the USA and back and facilitated his own successful exit, Adrian is an exceptional support person for Startup talent and prides himself on not getting in their way.
Adrian has made over 60 early stage investments and is a big subscriber to the notion of spray and pray. For example, he will make multiple investments into early stage ventures and talent and rely on a volume play to produce success. He is a keen entrepreneur and it certainly runs through the veins, with his son Adam Stone, currently at the helm of Speedlancer, a successful startup from the 500 startups program in Silicon Valley. With jewish heritage and a massive background and portfolio in property, Adrian talked about the 3 phases of wealth management for his personal finances, being growth, building and protecting.
Adrian spends his time offering up office hours at incubators & accelerators and is an incredibly giving entrepreneur. Check out some fun facts about him below.
Here's what we learnt about Adrian in less than 60 seconds: There is at least 1 Tesla in the garage, i-phone is his device of choice & you guessed he also has no middle name like our first guest Terry Paule Adrian's very first job was at IBM before he transitioned to working for IDB (in Dad's business) :) He loves profit and growth, enjoys a rib eye steak, his spirit animal is a puppy dog as he has one and he went to school at Mount Scopus Memorial College
Asked if he would rather play in an AFL - Australian Football League grand final or be at the birth of his first child, he answered correctly and being at the birth :) With a preference for being rich over famous and holidaying in the country with his motorbike on the beach with his wife, he believes in Ghosts and hardly working.
He doesn't like Lennon or McCartney & you won't find him on Facebook, apparently he was bumped off, we will have to find out more!
Adrian answered 18 questions in 60 seconds to place him in second place on the One Minute Millionaire leaderboard behind the clubhouse leader Terry Paule.
You can check him out here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrianstone/?originalSubdomain=au
https://twitter.com/smalltimevc?lang=en
https://angel.co/p/rockyfive
You can watch his episode here on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6u-6XUvaza172I2ep047dA
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