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ANGEL: Brad Feld on investing through 3 economic cycles, CEO/investor dynamics, and more | E1660

This Week in Startups

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Then There's Obsessive Compulsion

I've invested in so many companies that I ultimately really didn't care about the thing they were doing. And when everything was going fine it was fine. But when things got difficult and every single company that's been successful that I've been an investor has had at least one near death experience. It could be something the company did to itself or a fundamental shift in technology. A series of bad decisions can all of a sudden become cataclysmic. This means I'm not going to leave this I'm not leaving this problem. I got to get this right and you know I might fail because that is part of entrepreneurship.

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