Untapped Investor Summit (George Bandarian - Founding Partner and CEO of Untapped Ventures)

But look, as I look around the room, there's people here that have made a lot more investments than I have. I'm just getting started. This is the top of the first inning. I'm playing the long game here. We have a plan. It's a 30 year mission. Over those 30 years, to help a billion people achieve breakthroughs. And that's loosely defined, but in some way, help them move their life forward. And that's going to mean raising a number of funds and raising lots of dollars and making lots of investments. But I think we can do that. And part of the reason, if you're wondering, okay, so starting to get to here is why. But where does this come from? Part of it is fueled by this man. This is my father, and he passed away when I was a baby. So I grew up an only child without a dad. And although I was pretty smart, I had straight A's and basically, like, skipped. Skipped a couple grades and, like, finished usc at age 20. Like, I always felt that I wasn't good enough no matter what happened. Luckily, I got into personal development early in life, and I'm a big Tony Robbins guy. And I see Burgundy's nodding her head. Any other Tony Robbins? Yes, a number of you guys. Awesome. So I'm always working on myself. Last month, I was at Dr. Joe Dispenza's advanced retreat. Any other Joe Dispenza fans? Burgundy? No. Nobody else. Couple people. That was an awesome experience. And, yeah. So, like, I know if I'm not careful, my mind could really go down slippery slope. So what I did when I was at Date with destiny in 2018, after I sold my company, I had. This is the vision board that you do when you're a Date with Destiny. And I still live. This is from December 2018. So it's now almost four years old. But this is exactly what I use. And you see that the purpose of my life is to inspire transformation. So we live the best version of ourselves with health, happiness, and prosperity. That's what I want to focus on personally. And then untapped just kind of manifested from that. I didn't want to do it how Tony Robbins does with books and live conferences. I wanted to do it with building and investing in venture scale companies. And because I felt that I could have bigger reach faster that way, and that was just more my style. Right. To each their own. So to sum it up, just to kind of like, round out a little bit about the origin story, we want to be the best in the world at helping founders at the earliest stages, the ones that are tackling important human potential issues. And you'll hear from a number of them today. Think through their ideas, how to validate them and support them in their journey. And we could talk later about what that support looks like.