Lizness School Special: Oregon Sports Angels and Shark Tank!
Satellite Sisters
Mudbath Productions
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Liz's guest Jim Chi is President of Oregon Sports Angels. This week, two of the company founders that he advises are on Shark Tank. So exciting for these two college seniors with a patent in materials science! Jim can't share the result yet (we had to bleep put him out at one point) but Tanvi and Madhav sent a great audio message describing the behind-the-scenes vibe at the Shark Tank taping. Congratulations to Tanvi Gadamsetti and Madhav Aggarwal of BRCE. More here on LinkedIn. More here on BRCE Shop. WATCH SHARK TANK March 4, 10PM ET on ABC.
On the episode, Jim talks about how after years as a leader in Product Management and Global Sourcing, he had not intended to focus on advising/mentoring/investing in new founders. Liz Dolan is also a founding member of Oregon Sports Angels and shares her perspective on advising young founders. Oregon Sports Angels is the only angel investing organization in the US devoted exclusively to sports.
For HOMEWORK, Jim recommends Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage by Laura Huang.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Lismus School, everyone. I'm Liz Dolan, the Liz and Lisnes School, and I am joined here by my millennial mentor, Leah Sutherland. |
| 0:09.9 | Leah, how are you? I'm great, Liz. How are you? Good, good. I've been thinking a lot about my life, Leah. |
| 0:16.4 | Oh, just now you just started doing that? No, this is pretty much what Liz's school is about. Oh, okay. |
| 0:21.6 | I'm at the life stage where a lot of people I know are leaving their conventional or corporate jobs |
| 0:27.4 | and moving into a new stage, the sort of post-corporate stage. |
| 0:32.3 | Some are starting their own business consultancy. |
| 0:35.4 | Some want some cushy board seat or charitable boards. |
| 0:40.0 | Almost nobody I know has just checked out of their like corporate job and, well, you know how |
| 0:45.8 | much we hate the word retired. I don't see that happening with my people. |
| 0:49.6 | No, not the people who you would be friends with. |
| 0:51.7 | Everybody's allowed to do what they want to do, but that's not |
| 0:54.3 | what I'm not around you. Yeah. Not at Lismas School. No. We don't believe in that. We're continuing |
| 1:01.4 | to move on with our lives. And with the element of intergenerational exchange, too. So our guest today |
| 1:08.4 | is one of those people that has come into my life since I left my |
| 1:12.1 | corporate job. I met Jim Chee when I came together with, it was like a dozen or so other people, |
| 1:18.7 | some of whom I knew, others I didn't, to form something called Oregon Sports Angels, which I've |
| 1:24.7 | mentioned on Elizabeth School before. It's an angel investing group devoted to help create like the next generation of sports |
| 1:31.6 | companies. |
| 1:32.8 | And Jim was in that original crew. |
| 1:34.8 | And now he's the organization's president. |
| 1:37.0 | And Jim was always in the scary part of business that did not attract marketing people |
| 1:41.8 | like me. |
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