Ep. 177: Brad Rotter Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2013
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Brad Rotter, a speculator, and venture capitalist. He's not a trend follower per se, but he's made money in the trend following world. He was the first investor with Richard Dennis in the early 1980's.
The topic is Bitcoin.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- How Rotter became an entrepreneur from early years as a farmer in Iowa
- How he came to be Richard Dennis' first client when he started managing money
- Why the US is at 'peak civilization'
- Why technology is arbing away the need for people
- How the unit of time is changing
- Why it's harder and harder to make an easy living
- Whether the US government is the greatest hedge fund in history
- Why Bitcoin is a 'perfect' currency
Jump in!
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I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:10.9 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:21.2 | I am your host, Michael Covel. |
| 0:24.0 | Not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.3 | That's my passion. |
| 0:32.8 | I guess today is Brad Rotter. |
| 0:35.9 | Brad is a speculator. |
| 0:37.6 | He's a venture capitalist. |
| 0:40.2 | He looks for big trends. |
| 0:43.3 | He's not a trend following trader per se, even though he is made money in the trend following world. |
| 0:51.9 | He was perhaps, and I think he says, the first investor in Richard Dennis back in the early 1980s, that he put money with Richard Dennis. |
| 1:04.3 | This is a very wide-ranging conversation we have today. |
| 1:07.9 | And the premise is, Brad's premise, is that America has peaked. |
| 1:18.3 | Secondarily, he sees Bitcoin as a tremendous opportunity. I don't know, but the reason I wanted |
| 1:27.3 | to have the conversation today with Brad about these subjects is to learn. |
| 1:32.4 | Let me hear his perspective. |
| 1:34.9 | I hope you enjoy our conversation. |
| 1:43.0 | Hey, Brad. |
| 1:44.9 | Hello, Michael. |
| 1:46.1 | Have you been? |
| 1:47.5 | Not too bad. |
| 1:48.3 | Not too bad. |
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