# THOMPSON-HAYES: THE INSIDE OUT
## Chapter Forty — The New Company
Nathan launched Anchor Education Ventures on a Thursday morning in June.
Not with a press event — with an email. A clean, direct announcement to the twenty-seven people who had been part of the process: LPs, the advisory board, the three portfolio companies already committed, and Mia. The email described the fund's thesis in two paragraphs and its first investment in one sentence.
She read it at the kitchen table over coffee.
The first investment was the San Antonio literacy program — the twelve schools, forty-two percent reading improvement in six months, the data that had made Nathan set his coffee down in the middle of a Tuesday afternoon and call her immediately.
She sent him a text: *You named it right.*
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