Jeff Rosen, Founder and VC - Broom Ventures

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Aug 31, 2022

Jeff Rosen, Founder and VC at Broom Ventures, discusses his favorite portfolio companies and the importance of team, leadership, and culture. They also talk about an AI startup called Writesonic and its ability to generate high-quality content. Another interesting topic is a Boston startup, Tive, and its innovative supply chain tracking solution. Finally, they touch on the challenges faced by math teachers and the concept of secondary liquidity in the stock market.

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Introduction

00:00 • 3min

Right Sonic: AI for Generating Marketing Content

03:19 • 8min

Discussion on Range Hood, Proline, and the Use of Right Sonic for Website Content

11:27 • 2min

Boston Startup and Supply Chain Tracking

13:55 • 2min

The CEO and Founder of TIEF: A Mission-Driven Success Story

16:25 • 3min

Teaching Math and Overcoming Challenges

19:51 • 17min

Secondary Liquidity: Providing liquidity for shareholders

36:55 • 17min

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Tech VC and founder Jeff Rosen talks about his favorite portfolio companies at Broom Ventures and how his fund came about. He also tells a compelling story from his days at Teach For America.

Sponsored by Purdue University entrepreneurship and Peter Fasse, patent attorney at Fish and Richardson.

Highlights:

Sal Daher Introduces Jeff Rosen of Broom Ventures
Team, Leadership & Culture
“...we look particularly closely at the people and try to understand their commitment, their mission orientation, their psychology, their empathy.”
Broom Portfolio Company Writesonic Helps People Write Really Fast & Effectively
“It is scary. It's so good that you cannot possibly tell that it wasn't written by a human.”
“We're quite comfortable investing in in-person teams, distributed teams, international teams. It's the people that matter more than anything else.”
Broom Portfolio Company Tive: Hardware Trackers & Integrated Software for Supply Chains
Broom Invested in Tive Just as the Pandemic Was Starting in 2020; Brilliant Move in Retrospect
Krenar Komoni Is an Outstanding Founder Driving Surprising Growth
Immigrant Founders and the Superman Effect
A Conspiracy Theory Debunked
Listeners, please Leave a Written Review on Apple Podcasts; It Helps Us Get Found
Jeff Rosen’s Trying Experience in Teach For America
Jeff Rosen Grew a Beard and Impersonated a Drill Sargent to Get Control of His Classroom
“There were some extraordinary students in the school despite all of the challenges that they had faced in their lives.”
Jeff Rosen Started Programing in Middle School be Creating Games for His TI-83 Calculator
How Jeff Rosen Became a Co-Founder of Rhombus, a Blockchain Infrastructure Company
Sal Daher Expresses His Skepticism About the Existence of a Compelling Use Case for the Blockchain
Sal Daher Remains Open to Being Convinced About the Blockchain
How Jeff Rosen and His Co-Founder Dan Von Kohorn Started Their VC Fund

Topics: co-founders, portfolio