Sean Stannard-Stockton is the president and chief investment officer of Ensemble Capital Management, located in Burlingame, CA, midway between San Francisco and Silicon Valley. From 2006 through 2012, Sean authored the Tactical Philanthropy blog and wrote regular philanthropy columns for both the Financial Times and the Chronicle of Philanthropy. In 2012, Sean officially ended the blog to focus on growing Ensemble Capital.
Sasha Dichter, the director of business development at the Acumen Fund writes a Manifesto titled "In Defense of Raising Money". He makes some great points and declares, :I’m sick of apologizing for being in charge of raising money."