Sohail Prasad
Founder & CEO at Destiny (D/XYZ). Founder & former CEO at Forge (NYSE:FRGE). Angel Investor in 150+ startups, 10+ unicorns. YC alum, Thiel Fellow, 30u30.
- Role
- Founder & CEO at Destiny D Xyz
- Location
- Austin, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Sohail Prasad
Sohail is the Founder & CEO of Destiny (D/XYZ), an investment management company that provides public access to the private tech markets. Prior to founding Destiny, Sohail was the Founder and CEO of Forge, a global private securities marketplace building trading, custody, and data infrastructure to meet the needs of high-growth unicorn companies, employees, and investors.Today, Forge transacts billions in pre-IPO stock annually, has over $14B in assets under custody, and has raised over $250M in financing from institutions, including our partners: Temasek, Deutsche Börse, BNP Paribas, TD Ameritrade, Wells Fargo, and Munich Re. We also acquired SharesPost for $160M in 2020 and an alternative asset custodian for $55M in 2019 to accelerate our expansion into new verticals.Prior to starting Forge in 2014, he was among the youngest founders to go through Y Combinator as an eighteen-year-old. Over the years, Sohail has advised and invested in over 150 startups, including notable startups such as Rappi, Rippling, Notion, Retool, Astranis, Superhuman, Mercury, and Zenefits. He continues to invest in seed stage companies through S2 Capital, and serves as its Founding Partner.He previously managed mobile product at Zynga, joined mobile advertising firm Chartboost as its second engineering hire, and has held roles at Google and the MIT Media Lab. Sohail was awarded TCU\'s Texas Youth Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2010, and was later named a Thiel Fellow by the Thiel Foundation. He previously attended Carnegie Mellon University where he studied Electrical & Computer Engineering before dropping out.
Experience
Founder & CEO
Jan 2020 — Present
Public access to private tech.
Education
Carnegie Mellon University
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Y Combinator
Startups
2012
Texas Academy of Math and Science (at University of North Texas)
High School Diploma
Skills
- Customer Acquisition
- Integration
- Team Leadership
- Options
- Front-End
- Market Making
- User Interface Design
- Entrepreneurship
- Node.js
- Customer Retention
- Vertica
- Mysql
- C
- Analytics
- Growth Strategies
- Business Strategy
- Monetization
- Business Development
- Css3
- Iphone
- Negotiation
- Javascript
- Html 5
- Mongodb
- Strategic Planning
- Network Security
- Leadership
- Mobile Advertising
- Product Launch
- Back-End
- Python
- Mobile Games
- Derivatives
- Java
- Ruby
- Strategy
- E-Commerce
- Innovation
- Jquery
- Venture Capital
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