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MILES LASATER

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Miles loves to build companies and organizations, to connect people, and to
solve big problems.

You can keep up with all of Miles' goings on by signing up for his free weekly
email newsletter. Each week you'll get 3 things from the mind of Miles.Miles is
CEO & Founder of Purpose Built a venture studio. Purpose Built partners with
future founders, generates ideas together, builds teams, and invests capital to
launch new companies. What sets Purpose Built apart is (a) our focus on human
performance including the personal and professional development of our founders
and teams plus (b) all our startups help people reach for economic
opportunity.Miles is an Investor. He has invested in and advised dozens of
companies at the earliest stages including Honor, Remix (sold), Notable Health,
FreeWill, OnDeck, Balto and Forage. Additionally, he has helped seed nonprofits
such as Issue One, One Acre, MakeHaven Imagine Worldwide and US Megafire
Response. Miles is also a founding general partner of the Y Startup Index.Miles
is an Entrepreneur - Starting his career as an entrepreneur while still a
college student, he co-founded Higher One in his living room. As senior exec and
later board chair, he led the company from idea to $200mil+ revenue, 750+
employees and IPO including making multiple acquisitions. He was proud to
champion internal culture and values including open communication and client
service. Higher One also ranked highly on the national Great Place to Work list
twice as well as Inc 500 and multiple other fast growth lists. Miles was an
Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year regional winner and national
finalist.Miles went on to start two other venture-backed startups: SeeClickFix
(SaaS for government) which was acquired by CivicPlus and OneUni (higher
education via smartphone).Miles is a Teacher - He runs the Venture Patterns
project which identifies and catalogs the mental models and building blocks in
startups and venture capital. He is the host of the Startups for Good podcast.
At the Yale School of Management, Miles teaches the introduction to VC class. He
also co-created and taught a course on managing software development, which was
the first of its kind. He has spoken at a number of colleges about the
entrepreneurial journey.Miles is a Community Builder - In talking to students,
he saw the need for a Humanist Chaplain at Yale and helped create the Yale
Humanist Community. As founding board member of MakeHaven, he helped start New
Haven’s leading makerspace which has hundreds of members. He co-created Cluefest
which offered a free half-day scavenger hunt for about 200 people for about 10
years which led to at least one marriage. He is co-founder of the Yale
Entrepreneurial Society and Yale’s first business plan competition which
included a social entrepreneurship category. And he was key in a number of
participatory public art projects.Miles is a Volunteer - Miles is the Chair of
the Board of Curious Learning, a nonprofit that creates, localizes, distributes,
and optimizes open source mobile software so every child can learn to read. He
is also on the board of ConnCorp. As former board member of Yale New Haven
Hospital, Venture for America, the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute and MakeHaven,
Miles has experience with nonprofits of all sizes. As an advisory board member,
he helped design a new job-training program for people with criminal
convictions. Previously, he ran a free tax-preparation site and has prepared
food for the hungry. He is a former member of the Echoing Green Social
Investment Council.Miles is a Learner - With 100s of books he wants to read and
online classes he wants to take, Miles is always learning something new. He is a
Kauffman Fellow in venture capital in Class 23. He earned a Bachelors in
Computer Science from Yale. He also has studied theater and improv for many
years, part of the CFA curriculum and enjoys learning to dance.Miles is a Father
- Married with four children, he spends a lot of time repeating himself,
cleaning up, answering questions, cleaning up again and reading bedtime stories.