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This is Masters in Business with Barry Rittoltz on Bloomberg Radio.

This week on the podcast, I have an extra special guest. His name is Greg Sans.

He is the founder and managing partner at Costa Noa Ventures, a venture capital firm that has

been around for a decade or two. He was the original product manager at a little firm called Netscape,

working with Jim Clark and Mark Andreessen. Not only was he the first product manager,

he put together the business plan and he came up with the name Netscape.

And he is not just a technologist, but a venture investor and a very insightful person who sits

really at the nexus of a number of fascinating aspects of business, finance, technology,

go down the list. They're out in Palo Alto. He is an early seed investor. I wouldn't even call it

A-stage or B-A-Rounds. He's earlier than that. They focus on a number of really interesting

technologies and platforms. If you're remotely interested in anything having to do with Angel

or venture capital investing, if you're intrigued or fascinated as I am about technology and

how it's going to develop and impact the economy and society at large, then you're really going

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