The New Model - You Invest and It's All Goes Virtual

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Josh baer is the founder and CEO of a new social network called slack. The site allows people to communicate virtually with each other in real time. Baer says he's been able to activate his community by curating it, making sure they are engaging on line. He has also created offers and promotions as a channel for those who want to promote their products or services....

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