David Fialkow

David P. Fialkow[1] (born October 18, 1958)[2][3][4] is a billionaire venture capitalist and an Oscar winning documentary filmmaker and producer.

[9] Fialkow met fellow General Catalyst Co-Founder Joel Cutler, with whom he would launch a number of successful businesses, in first grade.

[7] In 1987, while still in law school, he also co-founded Last-Minute Travel Company (later changed to National Leisure Group), which offered discounted vacations for individuals with flexible schedules.

[7] Among other jobs that he held while in undergraduate and law school, Fialkow worked as a driver for leveraged buyout pioneer Thomas H.

Along with Cutler, he also founded a number of applied technology-based platforms and tools for the travel, financial services, specialty retail, and payment processing industries.

While attending Colgate, Fialkow participated in the university's Global Study program, where he focused on making films.

[7] David and his wife, Nina, also an independent documentary producer who has worked for Boston PBS affiliate WGBH-TV, where she was executive producer of This Old House, The Victory Garden and the Julia Child cooking show, The French Chef, are members of Impact Partners, a film partnership focused on developing films with a social justice theme.

[7][24] The film chronicles Fogel's use of performance-enhancing drugs to win an amateur cycling race and his discovery of a major international scandal, involving Grigory Rodchenkov, the head of the Russian anti-doping laboratory.

The pair have worked on a number of projects, include co-producing The Fourth Estate, a four-part miniseries that chronicled The New York Times' coverage of the White House.