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Office Hours With Chris Fralic Of First Round Capital

Tech Brew Ride Home

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🗓️ 17 April 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Chris Fralic of First Round Capital was involved in funding such companies as Ring, Hotel Tonight, Warby Parker, Rec Room, and as you’ll hear today, Roblox. But in addition to being a legend, as you’ll hear, Chris is just an all around good dude... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:28.0

Welcome to another office hours episode of the Tech Mem Ride Home. I'm Brian McCullough.

0:29.0

Today we have a VC legend, Chris Freelich of First Round Capital, who was involved in funding such

0:36.2

companies as Ring, Hotel Tonight, Warby Parker, Rec Room, and as you're about to hear,

0:42.4

Roblachs. but in addition to being a legend, as you'll

0:46.7

hear Chris is just an all-around good dude.

0:49.7

Chris, I love you, I like to think of you as a friend.

0:55.0

So I always follow what you have to say on Twitter, and I sort of knew that you at first round were involved in

1:01.7

Roblachs, but then you shared a great story about you

1:06.5

your personal investment and history with Roblach so as much as you'd like to share just

1:12.1

tell us that story just go

1:14.7

Sure. Well, thanks Brian good to be here and appreciate all the work you've done and and

1:20.6

Glad you asked me to be on so the Roblock story is an interesting one

1:24.6

from a couple perspectives.

1:25.8

One is my son helped us land this deal

1:31.4

or at least know to be, inform us to. land this is

1:34.0

inform us to be interested that this is a really good game.

1:37.4

He wouldn't stop playing once I asked him to check it out

1:41.0

as we were considering the company. And know so that's been that's been an unfair advantage I think I have how many how many years ago so it started in 2007 when he was eight years old.

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