Jason Gardner was sitting at his desk last year when he was handed a printout of a Bloomberg article.
Gardner, the CEO of burgeoning fintech startup Marqeta, read the note scrawled across the front: It contained the phone number and email address of Rudy Cline-Thomas, who was known for connecting athletes like Andre Iguodala and Steph Curry with Silicon Valley startups looking for investors.
The old-school, snail-mail approach intrigued Gardner. He decided to reach out.
