Finance & Venture Capital — Benjamin Tseng

Financial models, public S-1 dissections, venture capital strategy, and startup unit economics.

Quantitative Analysis & Unit Economics

The clinical and economic trade-offs in early disease screening: why sensitivity doesn't guarantee viability and how PPV shapes commercial margins.

Interactive contour maps and geometric mean simulations demonstrating the mathematical drag of variance on long-term compound growth.

Internal Rate of Return (IRR) and Net Present Value (NPV) workbook modeling higher education ROI across degree tiers and opportunity costs.

Side-by-side financial breakdown of rideshare economics, take-rates, driver incentives, and contribution margins.

Pre-IPO unit economic examination of hosting cost scaling, ARPU trajectory, and cloud infrastructure contract commitments.

Why standard software venture playbooks fail when applied to atoms, physical scaling laws, and technical de-risking cycles.

Translating historical doctrines of asymmetric warfare, supply lines, and rapid concentration of force into startup execution.

Direct, unvarnished guidance on pitch narratives, investor psychology, and constructing defensible market sizing.

A strategic framework categorizing tech acquisitions: talent, product, distribution, and preemptive defense.

On the true mandate of venture capital: backing fundamental innovation where financial returns are a byproduct of real value creation.