Our newsletter returns after a busy few months at Titanium Birch.
We’re hiring!
We’re looking for an expert people-manager to become our COO. The role involves defining and providing for the organisation’s needs for talent by nurturing our current people and hiring across the entire org.
Plus, the COO will own all non-investment areas: finance and accounting, branding, HR, talent acquisition, office admin, IT and security, engineering, etc. (and will delegate to the people or vendors they hire and manage).
Know anyone who’d be perfect for the job? Please refer them!
Highlights from our blog
We’ve kicked off our blog with two topics near and dear to Peter’s heart.
Our family office tech stack
Establishing our tech stack has been crucial to optimising our operations. Here’s a list of the IT tools and services we use to run Titanium Birch.
Read: Our family office tech stack
Our family office’s threat model
In our discussions with other investment firms, cyber threat modelling often emerges as an area where our peers are keen to learn from our experience. Here’s our thinking about the threats facing our firm and our mitigation strategies for a few particularly relevant ones.
Read: Our family office’s threat model
What we’re reading
Dungeon Crawler Carl (series) by Matt Dinniman
I’ve been reading books in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series. After leaving ExpressVPN, I just wanted to do some totally new and different things, so a friend recommended this series from a genre called “LitRPG” that I had never heard about. It’s about a talking cat with cool sunglasses and her care-keeper who only wears boxer-shorts, and it’s very silly.
I hadn’t mentioned it to other people until my friend and co-author Dan Hou came to visit me, I mentioned it in passing, and he responded by immediately hugging me saying he hadn’t imagined anyone else besides him would like books like that. — Peter
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
This book follows the lives and careers of a pair of game designers. I’m not a gamer (though I do love Tetris and Minesweeper), but I appreciate and feel inspired by the passion, creativity, and labour behind game design and development. Zevin brings to life the interpersonal dynamics between the team: sometimes warm and lovely, other times fractious and awful, and always driven by their desire to produce their best work.
This book made me laugh, cry, and nearly throw my ebook reader across the room. It’s one of those rare books that I’m still thinking about weeks after putting it down. — Justina
Wishing you a happy and productive month! If you haven’t yet, follow us on LinkedIn for our latest updates.
All the best,
The team at Titanium Birch
Disclaimer: The materials linked in this newsletter do not reflect the views of Titanium Birch and should not be taken as investment advice.