PHILOSOPHY
People reached
× Positive impact
= Success
Not revenue. Not valuation. Not followers. This is the scoreboard we chose — and everything we build, back, and publish gets judged against it.
01 / THE GOLDEN AGE
Tech should make your life better.
We’re living in the golden age of technology, so why does the world feel so broken? People are more isolated than ever. More depressed than ever. More polarized than ever.
Too much of tech gets rich making that worse. Crypto built to scam the people who buy it. Prediction markets that are gambling with better branding. Platforms making billions replacing real relationships with fake ones.
We build and back tech that makes lives better, not worse. If a product makes its users worse off, we’re not interested in what it earns.
Three ways we drive impact.
01
We build.
Companies of our own, operated in-house. Every idea runs through the formula. It filters the good ones from the bad ones fast.
02
We invest.
We put our own capital to work, investing in brands that have a chance of reaching millions, or billions, and leaving them better off.
03
We amplify.
We create meaningful distribution and communities through our content viewed by millions globally.
You can’t measure impact daily. You can measure whether a day pointed at it. We ask ourselves two questions, every day:
How did our work improve the success formula inputs today?
How alive were we while moving it?
If the answer to the second keeps coming up “not very,” we change the work. What’s the point of building if not to have some fun along the way?
04 / WHY IT MATTERS
When the scoreboard is impact, everyone is on the same side of it. Founders win by making the people they serve win. We win by helping founders win. Success only happens when someone outside of L7V wins. Self-serving work scores zero.