About Unleashing Impact

Unleashing Impact exists to teach exponential scale innovative entrepreneurship as a vital tool to solve issues of opportunity, equality, autonomy, safety, justice, creativity, health, education, and the lessening of human suffering. The programs combine practices from the world’s most innovative companies, NGOs, and nonprofits with leading research on leadership, communication, conflict resolution, and working with scarcity and trauma affected populations. The programs are intended for aspiring and current impact entrepreneurs, funders, and those who wish to transform their communities. Most people believe they cannot create their visions and follow their passions in the world, but a fundamental tenet of Unleashing Impact is that all of us contain extraordinary powers to dream, imagine, and create if provided the right education and tools.

Unleashing Impact is part of a broader effort to create substantive economic opportunity for all. Demystifying Silicon Valley is a sister site that teaches technology-based innovative entrepreneurship and contains over 150 hours of content. Demystifying Wealth is a sister site that teaches creation of true life-long wealth, beginning with financial security, as that is a fundamental requirement to build wealth. Because personal financial literacy does not exist in isolation, the programs then teach skills to improve lives and earning power, such as how to have better relationships, improve communication and job skills, and be more creative and productive, and then teach creativity and entrepreneurship. Both those sites are open to all. Both Demystifying Silicon Valley and Demystifying Wealth offer reduced prices to make their programs more accessible.

To make the Demystifying and Unleashing programs available even more widely, the Demystifying Project, Inc., a registered 501(c)(3) public charity, Tax ID 92-3039676, promotes impact, financial, life skill, learning, career, innovation, and business education of underserved, at-risk, and historically disadvantaged populations. Donations are tax deductible and donors will receive correspondence confirming donations. The Demystifying Project, Inc. is a separate legal organization with a similar but legally distinct mission from Demystifying Wealth, LLC, which owns both the Demystifying Wealth and Demystifying Silicon Valley programs. Donations to the Demystifying Project will primarily go to fund group and community programs, with some funds allocated for individual scholarships for people unable to afford the programs.

Mia’s Story

Born and raised in the East Bay, Mia is a first generation college student and Filipino-American. Her father was a migrant worker for seven years in the Northern Marianas Islands. Mia grew up hearing the stories of her father, relatives, and friends, which inspired her to uplift and preserve their voices and histories to better understand the experiences of migrant workers in her community. Mia graduated from UC Berkeley with highest honors in May 2023 with a degree in Geography. She focused on global poverty and development and the cultural, historical, and economic dynamics contributing to uneven international development. During her time at UC Berkeley, she studied global development at The London School of Economics, played double bass and electric bass in the university orchestra and jazz band, had an original composition performed by Berkeley Jazz, presented her research at a Renaissance Weekend, won the Judith Lee Stronach Baccalaureate Prize, and was a Visiting Scholar after she graduated. Mia is the Founding Curator of the World Economic Forum Las Vegas Global Shapers Hub. Mia continues helping marginalized communities by focusing on the role of trauma in development and the need to create exponential change using Lean Impact, Human Centered Design, Agile, growth hacking, and data analytics. Her go to karaoke song is “Dancing Queen” by ABBA. See my LinkedIn here.

David’s Story

Having grown up under the poverty level, I fiercely believe in unleashing the potential of all. I have spent my career helping promote innovation, investment, and entrepreneurship worldwide. By promoting financial, personal, and creative freedom, we can provide generation and community transforming opportunities to people no matter their circumstances. See my CV here.

The home I lived in from age 10 until college.

David’s Brief Biography

David is a Managing Partner of Richmond Global Ventures, a leading international venture capital fund that produced four “unicorns” out of ten investments. David is one of the world’s leading experts on global entrepreneurship and has taught over 300 programs to over 15,000 entrepreneurs in more than 30 countries over more than two decades. In addition to having represented over 300 startups and dozens of venture funds in hundreds of cross border transactions as one of the world’s top innovation and venture lawyers, David has been a successful startup entrepreneur.

David works extensively with Endeavor Global as a Global Mentor and was a founding Board member of Endeavor Catalyst, a pioneering venture philanthropy fund. David has appeared in many publications discussing innovation and business strategy, including Fortune and The Financial Times. He is a frequent speaker, including at the Fortune Global Forum in Beijing, the Financial Times Innovation Summit in London, and the Bloomberg Financial Innovation Summit.

David has a J.D. from the University of Michigan, cum laude, and an A.B. from Stanford University, with honors, with distinction, where he won multiple public service awards, was a teaching assistant in the Computer Science Department, and studied at the Freie Universität Berlin as an exchange scholar.

David has also cashed at the World Series of Poker Main Event, was one of the youngest nationally ranked soccer referees in the United States, captained the national and world championship university quiz team (the latter broadcast on BBC2 TV on University Challenge, making him one of the few Americans ever to appear on the show), and won on Jeopardy!

David’s Global Scope of Deals, Clients, and Trainings​