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After a Tahoe-based tech conference, Sheel Mohnot, the fintech investor behind Better Tomorrow Ventures, is beatboxing in his head — all day, every day. And while it may feel like an uncommon takeaway from an event featuring the who’s who in tech that was precisely the point.
Mohnot is one of the 40 people who attended “Learning Man” earlier this month, a tech conference focused on immersing attendees in education, play and creation. Attendees were in their 20s to 60s; in exchange for expanding their mind, tickets cost $750. The event, organized by friends Marie Diamond, Arielle Zuckerberg, Amit Kumar, Jared Goldberg and Kristen Winzent, wanted to ironically dig beyond what brought everyone together in the first place: the world of tech.
Diamond, a comms executive and organizer, told TechCrunch that “the whole premise ...
