Former NBA basketball player turned investor C.J. Watson joins the show to talk to Scott about his business pursuits after basketball. C.J. talks about how his parents were entrepreneurs and having the “entrepreneur gene” was always interested in things outside of sports and started getting into angel investing halfway through his playing career. C.J. shares…
Scott Kitun talks to self-made hedge fun manager, Emmet Peppers. The founder of Good Soil Investment, Emmet grew his money from investing $30,000 – including a massive bet on Tesla – into $70 million. Emmet talks about jumping from the mail room into investing without day trading experience, how buying a Tesla got him down…
OCV invests in Series B fundraising, which typically are companies with about $5 million in recurring revenue. The firm has a lot of interest in life science, healthcare and property tech companies, among others. Beyond the checkbook OCV looks for opportunities to assist other facets of the business such as enterprise software, cloud assets…
When you’ve already worked at Google for over a decade, co-founded a successful startup, used your talents to help a non-profit, and earned degrees from Stanford University and Harvard Business School — what’s next? For Minnie Ingersoll, the answer was venture capital and a move away from Silicon Valley. After graduating from Stanford with a…
If you’re trying to launch a company, you probably started off with a specific idea of how you’d make money. But as any seasoned entrepreneur knows, there are millions of unexpected revenue stream possibilities as a business grows. KeyMe is a perfect example. Ravin Gandhi was the first investor in KeyMe, a tech company that…