When it comes to investing all I could think about is Tony Conrad, Partner at True Ventures and founder of about.me – a place for freelancers, entrepreneurs, and side-hustlers to make a name for themselves. We caught up at True Ventures, at his San Francisco office, when I was trying to figure out how big time venture capitalists like Tony figure out which early-stage startups get their enthusiastic support. I’ve distilled his tips into five must’s for you to get your foot in the door with a leading VC.

A failed exam was enough for Murad Osmann to start photography. “I failed my first year in university,” he begins. “My degree was in engineering. If you fail, you are not allowed to take any exams. You have to come back the next year.” But instead of sitting around for a year, he started to learn photography.

What can you anticipate when meeting one of the world’s coolest DJs, let alone someone who’s barely 21 years old? World-famous superstar DJ Martin Garrix boasts more than 1,800,000,000 views total on his YouTube channel, made it to the first place of DJ Magazine’s 2016 and 2017 list of Top 100 DJs, and won two awards at last year’s MTV EMAs.

Fedor Holz was barely 16 when he began playing poker with his friends. While some of the others already managed to earn a decent sum each month from the game, he was still playing with only a couple of Euros. Eight years have passed since then, and Fedor has won over 24 million dollars on poker in the past two years. Yet, he’s recently playing less, and is now focusing on building his own businesses.

The way I see it, Jake Paul isn’t just a Youtuber celebrity or an Instagram-famous influencer. He is primarily a serial entrepreneur and investor. Team10, his social media label and talent incubator, is an ambitious project seeking to disrupt the influencer industry and take over Hollywood. Those are pretty big plans for a 20-year-old. But Jake is no normal 20-year-old.