What Do You Look for in Companies?

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Work where you wantbut prepared to be away from your family for ten days while we grind it out four times a year or so. The benefit is you get to be with your family those other times. So then you e a different conversation with spouses and employees. Ah, what do you look for in companies? What have you learned over the years in terms of refining your own ability to pick winners? Pause on that question for one send. Ye, my son's playing fortnight, and i can hear him, so i don't make sure you don't hear him. I hold on. Wou're doing this and bea o, let me just tell e, leave it in...

0:35 Jason intros Capital Factory CEO & Founder Josh Baer
1:47 What is Capital Factory in its current iteration? How are they transitioning to remote? Loss of serendipity of random in-person connections
5:38 Josh takes Jason through the SXSW cancellation
10:29 Issues conceptualizing COVID's impact
15:35 Transitioning to rolling cohorts & optimizing their Slack community
21:36 Capital Factory's standard deal terms, why founders join, how returns are divvied up
27:30 Starting Capital Factory during the last economic downturn, how millennials will react to this crisis
30:45 Josh describes his 5 buckets of how companies are weathering the COVID storm
35:09 Remote work's effect on startup collaboration
41:01 COVID's effect on children, getting back to work
47:37 What investing mistakes has Josh made, and how has he learned from them?
56:00 What founder traits does Josh look for?
59:14 Moving to Austin, SXSW history