18 Facts About Adeo Ressi

Adeo Ressi is the founder and CEO of Decile Group and Executive Chairman of Founder Institute.

Adeo Ressi has launched 14 venture capital funds, served on the board of the X Prize Foundation, and created TheFunded.

Adeo Ressi spent four summers in Arcosanti as its youngest working resident.

Adeo Ressi was often tasked with performing menial jobs like cleaning out sewage pipes.

Adeo Ressi attended college at the University of Pennsylvania where he spent time as a housemate of PayPal co-founder, Elon Musk.

Adeo Ressi spent four years in college but did not receive his degree, because he wanted to use copies of Green Times as his senior thesis instead of writing a traditional paper.

Adeo Ressi founded methodfive, a web development firm, in 1995 and sold it to Xceed in 2000 for $88 million.

Adeo Ressi used the money from his previous two ventures to found Game Trust, a developer of online casual game infrastructure, in 2002.

Adeo Ressi was forced to take out a bridge loan from existing investors to keep Game Trust afloat.

Adeo Ressi eventually sold Game Trust to RealNetworks in 2007, but his experience with venture capitalists led him to start TheFunded in 2007.

Adeo Ressi intended to keep the site anonymous, but news about its existence leaked to TechCrunch.

In 2009, Adeo Ressi embarked on another venture called The Founder Institute, a startup incubator and entrepreneur training program headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

Adeo Ressi wanted to help entrepreneurs create better businesses, and wanted to understand the ingredients for a successful entrepreneur.

In 2015, Adeo Ressi was featured on the cover of Entrepreneur Magazine, and began writing as a Guest Contributor to Forbes Magazine.

In 2020, Adeo Ressi launched VC Lab, a free training program for venture capitalists worldwide, as part of the Founder Institute, which was covered in TechCrunch.

In 2021, VC Lab was spun out as an independent company, as part of Decile Group, and Adeo Ressi became the CEO of Decile Group and Executive Chairman of Founder Institute.

Adeo Ressi emphasizes innovation in his work, aiming to transform venture capital into a force for good and to fund impactful companies.

In 2023, Adeo Ressi led the development of a large language model for venture capital at Decile Group, called Decile Base.