From Teenage Entrepreneur to Serial Founder: Insights from Michael Pechatnikov’s Journey

Ventures from The Valley

In this episode of Ventures from the Valley, our host, Victor Orlovski, is joined by Michael Pechatnikov, Co-Founder and CTO of a Stealth Startup. Together, they touch on the following topics:

• Michael's entrepreneurial journey and experiences with starting and selling companies
• The realization that working and building companies is his passion
• Michael's venture into managing wealth and exploring investment opportunities
• Challenges faced in finding managers with consistent alpha and closing the fund
• Importance of the ideation phase and focusing on market size
• Michael's plans for the future

Michael is the Co-Founder and CTO of Stealth Startup (September 2023—present). A stealth startup is a startup company that operates in stealth mode, i.e., avoids public attention. This may be done to hide information from competitors or—as part of a marketing strategy—to manage public image. The phenomenon is well-known in the venture capital (VC) community.

He is also the Founder, Managing Partner, and Chairman at Sharpe Alpha Capital (May 2015—Present). Sharpe Alpha Capital is a market-neutral, algo-driven Fund of Fund that targets an uncorrelated portfolio of consistent alpha-generating managers worldwide. The managers are selected from a database of about 10,000 active funds using a proprietary algorithm. The model seeks to distinguish alpha from beta and identify managers whose performance results from skill rather than luck.

Previously, Michael was the Founder and CTO of VisionMap (which Rafael acquired) and Telmap (which Intel acquired).

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