Grow Your Network: Danielle Strachman Is A Bibbity-Bobbity Intuition Multiplier
November 7, 2025·0 comments·zg
Do you know Danielle Strachman? She's the co-founder and General Partner of 1517 Fund, the person who helped build the Thiel Fellowship (which backed Vitalik Buterin, Dylan Field, and Laura Deming before anybody knew who they were), started a charter school with 450 students in San Diego, and now runs a venture fund that literally backs “dropouts working on hard problems & sci-fi scientists at the earliest stages of their companies,” aka irrationally passionate young people who want to test their intuition.
If not, allow me to introduce you. Danielle has spent two decades quietly rebuilding how we think about talent, education, and opportunity. She moves through the world asking one question: "What if we just gave resources to the people with the strongest conviction?"
I wanted to connect with her because she embodies something I value deeply: the belief that ROI isn't always visible, relationships matter more than credentials, and community building is the highest-leverage business model that nobody talks about.
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