Overview

Gender

unknow

Investor Type

Angel

Investor Stage

initial_coin_offering,Private Equity,Venture

Adam Juegos is an award-winning film director, entrepreneur, and investor, based in Manhattan, New York.

In 2008 his team won Camp Biz Smart, an incubator for young startups, for co-engineering an affordable and portable water desalination device for distribution beginning in areas of North Africa greatly affected by water scarcity. In 2013, he was awarded the National Gold Medal in the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards at Carnegie Hall in New York City. That year he also placed in the competitive Quarter Zero startup accelerator hosted by Harvard Business School. He has since received his BFA in Film & TV Prod., Writing & Directing from New York University's (NYU) Tisch School of the Arts.

On Friday, February 2nd, 2018, Adam's mentor and later business partner advised him to short the market in anticipation of a significant correction. Using funds from NYU's modest 'production allotment' intended fund his first short film, Adam in his own words "gambled" on a dozen index put options. The following Monday would be remembered as the single largest one-day drop in market history, with the Dow falling nearly 1,600 points. All of Adam's options were heavily 'in the money.' He attributes his ADHD ability to 'hyper-focus' to being able to, over the course of the next three days, both learn how to trade options while simultaneously placing hundreds of 'advanced' options trades, netting him a 5,000%+ gain.

A portion of those earnings would go to fund his first short film "The Porns" — a musical comedy about the son of the first North Korean ambassador to the United States; the film has since garnered 15 awards and 18 nominations from festivals around the world.

In April, 2021, during the peak of the cryptocurrency Dogecoin's media frenzy, Adam flew across the ocean to his hometown to search for his lost Dogecoin initially purchased some eight-years earlier in January, 2014. By what he calls 'dumb luck,' he not only found his wallet on a now recovered, corrupted hard drive, but pledged all of his proceeds entirely to charity and purposes 'other than (himself).'

In an interview, Adam stated he has always been passionate about applying emerging technology to solve the great problem facing all peoples of the world, on Earth and beyond. He uses that passion and vision to direct the investments he makes and the companies and organizations he becomes involved with.