The Washington Post: Social Media Pioneer Starts Investment Firm

Pete Snyder isn’t resting. He is catching the next wave.

A month ago, the early social media pioneer was an executive at Meredith Corp., which had bought his New Media Strategies firm in 2007 — making Snyder and many NMS employees wealthy and happy.

Snyder, 39, left Meredith at the end of 2011 and started Disruptor Capital, a seed and angel investment firm owned and run by him.

“We are funding and growing disruptive technologies, ideas and entrepreneurs,” said Snyder in a phone call. Snyder is recovering from a recent surfing injury to his rotator cuff, which he first hurt as a wrestler at William & Mary.

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