The day after that deal closed I handed the guy who is the CEO of that company the keys. And I basically said you know he wanted to run the division that my company was part of and I said my company is now part of your company you're the division. He made about 40 investments between that period of time in the end of 1996, 25, $50,000 a time. But that was what started like it wasn't planned I knew nothing and I just sort of learned by doing. This is extraordinary when you think about it. You can count them on one hand. There were only a couple of people who would be crazy enough to write 10 to 25 to 50 K checks
(0:00) Jason Kicks off the show
(2:49) Brad Feld, Co-founder of Foundry, talks about starting out in investing
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(14:56) Brad’s thesis for whom he’ll get in the “trenches” with
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(22:22) Fighting to the end + Investing through the dot-com bubble
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(39:43) Surviving the GFC
(44:23) Brad’s perspective on the investor/CEO dynamic + being a leader in a down market
(1:00:02) Reflecting on the speculative asset bubble
(1:16:44) Looking forward into 2023
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