Ep. 898: Brad Feld Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Brad Feld. He has been an early-stage investor and entrepreneur for over twenty years. Prior to cofounding Foundry Group—a Boulder, Colorado-based early-stage venture capital fund that invests in information technology companies all over the United States—he cofounded Mobius Venture Capital. Prior to that, he founded Intensity Ventures, a company that helped launch and operate software companies.
The topics are his books The Startup Community Way: Evolving an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem and Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Software
- How to be an Entrepreneur
- The United States 2020
- Computer Languages
- Commercial Internet
- Cryptocurrency
- COVID Crisis
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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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| 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, not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.4 | This is one of those fun conversations you only get to have by doing a podcast. |
| 0:39.5 | My guest today is Brad Feld. |
| 0:41.3 | He's an American entrepreneur, author, blogger, venture capitalist at Foundry Group in Boulder, Colorado. |
| 0:48.3 | While we go back in time, Brad's got a few years on me, just a handful of years, pretty close in age. |
| 0:53.8 | But it was really fun to dig |
| 0:55.3 | through his tech experience, mid-80s, coming into the early 90s, netscape taking off, |
| 1:02.7 | all of his different experiences. Wow, what a great time travel and bringing it all up to |
| 1:08.5 | current day, the synthesis of the whole, the philosophical underpinnings. |
| 1:15.7 | It's always, always my fun, and hopefully the guest's fun, to get into an entrepreneurial |
| 1:22.7 | conversation, the entrepreneurial thinking, the entrepreneurial love. |
| 1:28.8 | And for Brad, his big thing, startup communities, |
| 1:33.0 | startup communities wherever you are, |
| 1:36.1 | whatever city you are in, |
| 1:38.7 | start a startup community. |
| 1:41.2 | Without any further delay, |
| 1:42.6 | let's jump right into my conversation with Bradfield. |
| 1:45.4 | Take me back in time because I would have to think I was a pretty average student. |
| 2:02.3 | And I would think you were either a really good student or you just got 800 on the SATs because a lot of kids were not running off to MIT. |
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