The 38-year-old business manager for Lady Gaga – through his Los Angeles-based Coalition Media Group and talent management arm, Atom Factory – has invested in 40 internet companies through his angel investment fund vehicle, AF Square.
And he and Lady Gaga have this year co-founded Backplane, a company aiming to revolutionise social networks by building small "micro-networks" around interest groups.
Lady Gaga has 29 million Twitter followers and 50 million Facebook "likes", while AF Square's investments include stakes in music-sharing websites Spotify and Songza, file-sharing firm Dropbox, taxi-ordering firm Uber, social commerce firm Fab and the eponymous London firm behind, Fight My Monster, the world's fastest growing computer game for boys aged between eight and 10.
"Songza is already a rocket ship in America," says Carter. "Uber has completely disrupted the US taxi industry. Spotify has disrupted the music industry and its forms of distribution, while Fab has disrupted social commerce.
"This is a whole new wave of the internet. We're seeing old industries get turned over."
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