Howard Lindzon on Business Ideas Before the Internet

Masters in Business

Bloomberg

Business, Entrepreneurship, Investing

4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2023

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Bloomberg Radio host Barry Ritholtz speaks with Howard Lindzon, who is co-founder and managing partner of the early stage seed investment fund Social Leverage. Lindzon also cofounded the social network Stocktwits, which pioneered the "cashtag" and today has over 6 million monthly unique visitors; in addition, he has written several books and hosts the podcast "Panic With Friends."

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0:00.0	Join Bloomberg Live in San Francisco on June 20th for Bloomberg's Intelligent Automation
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0:08.4	During this special evening event, top business and IT executives will gather to explore ways
0:13.3	in which intelligent automation can offset economic pressures and help organizations thrive
0:18.8	by enhancing operational efficiencies and stakeholder value.
0:22.6	This program is proudly sponsored by IBM.
0:25.4	Register at BloombergLive.com slash automation slash radio.
0:30.0	This is Masters in Business with Barry Rittholz on Bloomberg Radio.
0:38.3	This week on the podcast I have an extra, extra special guest.
0:42.8	My friend Howard Linson is a guest.
0:45.5	This is a little off of our regular format only because Howard and I know each other
0:52.5	for forever and less than a guest doing a Q&A is just kind of me goofing around with
0:59.6	Howard and having a conversation.
1:03.8	Howard has had like really this shockingly blessed career.
1:09.3	He launches Wallstrip in the early 2000s and before you know it, he's in the middle of
1:14.6	a bidding war with a bunch of different people, the street.com and CBS wanting to buy it,
1:19.5	he rolls that cash into his next venture which becomes a wildly successful angel fund which
1:29.0	now is in its fourth edition.
1:31.9	He was a pre IPO investor in companies like Facebook and Twitter.
1:39.7	Literally the first check in to Robinhood which went public in 2021 at about a $34 billion
1:48.2	valuation so you can imagine that first check multiplied a little bit from 2014 or so.
1:56.9	I know him from Linson, Paloosa from his early media work.
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