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Michael Lazerow

Co-Founder, Managing Partner
Lazerow Enterprises and Velvet Sea Ventures

Mike is a serial entrepreneur and investor best known as the cofounder of Golf.com and Buddy Media. After selling Golf.com to Time Warner in 2006, Mike cofounded Buddy Media, the leading social media marketing platform that sold to Salesforce in 2012 for $745 million. Since then, he has focused on providing capital and advice to the world’s most innovative founders. Mike has supported close to 100 early-stage startup founders. He has served as angel investors and advisors to Scopely, which sold to Savvy Games for $5 billion in 2022, and Liquid Death, the canned water company whose “evil mission” is to make people laugh and get more of them to drink healthy beverages more often, all while helping to kill plastic pollution.

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Events featuring Michael Lazerow
Events featuring Michael Lazerow