Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market each day.

It's Monday, June 17th. I'm your host, Jason Moser. And on today's show, we've got a special guest in the studio

for a new installment of Between Two Fools.

Brendan Matthews has been working with the Motley Fool now for about seven years.

Much of his career was spent helping find great stock ideas on our investing team, but recently

Brendan has taken on a new challenge in joining Motley Fool Ventures, a new branch of

the company that's focused on finding great ideas before they ever even hit the public markets.

Brendan, thanks for being here.

Happy to be here, Jason.

So I'm excited to get you here to talk about what you and the team have going on at Motley Full Ventures.

Be good, I mean, it is a fairly new part of the business,

but you've been at it for a while now,

and I've had the opportunity to sit in on some of the meetings

and sort of the process that you guys go through there. And I think

think just general perspective from that that side of the world we don't

ever really get I don't think our listeners hear enough about it so to have you

in here talking about it I think is going to be

really great. Before we get into it, tell us a little bit about your

background. So I grew up in this area. I was a follower of the fool as a teenager.

Shortly after the dot-com bubble,

I started a career in management consulting,

which means I traveled a lot and got really good at spreadsheets and PowerPoint in submitting for expenses

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