Tommy Stadlen

Tommy Stadlen is an LP and Venture Partner at firstminute.

He is a Founding Partner of Giant Ventures, the global venture capital firm backing purpose-driven technology founders. Tommy was a Co-Founder and Chairman of the Tailwind SPAC platform, which has launched three public companies with a combined market cap of over $1bn.

Tommy was previously Co-Founder & CEO of Swing, an imaging technology company chaired by Twitter founder Biz Stone. In 2017, Swing exited to Microsoft where Tommy held product leadership roles.Tommy is the best-selling author of ‘Connect: How Companies Succeed by Engaging Radically With Society’.Tommy is a former McKinsey consultant and previously worked for President Obama. He graduated with First Class honours from Oxford and holds an MSc (Distinction) from the London School of Economics. Tommy has been recognised by the Financial Times as a top 50 Global Ally Executive and by Entrepreneur’s ‘Best Companies in America’ award.