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Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2017
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Whether you are a startup with an idea like Adam’s dream of someday creating an Iron Man suit (listen to learn what we are talking about!) or just looking for more information about this unique kind of company, this one is worth a listen.
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Bio:
In 2009, the same year that Adam graduated from UCLA, he founded Xpert Financial, a secondary market for private securities. After settling millions of dollars in private security transactions and becoming a registered broker dealer, he left Xpert Financial in late 2012 and began angel investing, where he backed such startups as Coinbase, Plangrid and Earnest. Currently his portfolio of investments is valued at more than $1.5B.
Adam then partnered up with Brayton Williams and to change the face of global startup mentorship. The focus of Boost VC on future technology development stems from Adam Draper's dream to create an Iron Man suit.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Almost Here, Around the Corner of Future Technology Podcasts with Richard Jacobs. |
| 0:07.0 | Future Technologies is poised to transform our lives for better or worse for the focus of this podcast. Almost here |
| 0:14.3 | means these technologies are now here and starting to be used. We're just around the |
| 0:18.8 | corner. For Bitcoin to Artificial Intelligence, 3D printing, blockchain, virtual reality and more. |
| 0:25.4 | Good morning, good afternoon or good evening depending on where you are in the world. |
| 0:29.1 | This is Tracy Myrda on behalf of Richard Jacobs here at Future Tech Podcast. |
| 0:34.0 | Today I am very excited to welcome a special guest, Adam Draper, the founder and managing |
| 0:38.8 | director of Boost VC. |
| 0:41.1 | Adam, welcome and thank you so much for joining me today. |
| 0:44.0 | Thanks so much for having me. |
| 0:46.0 | This is great. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm excited. |
| 0:49.0 | Well, Adam, let's just jump right in and why don't you tell us a little bit about Boost DC what it is and what was the idea and the passion behind it? |
| 1:01.2 | Yeah, so Boost we see. |
| 1:04.0 | So we are an accelerator program. |
| 1:08.0 | Twice a year, we run a three month, |
| 1:12.0 | where we provide housing, office space, and we |
| 1:14.6 | invest in startups. About the reason I started it was I founded a company about eight or nine years ago and after running that for about four years I found that I really enjoyed helping entrepreneurs not make the same mistakes I was making while |
| 1:33.7 | starting a company and I ended up helping someone come up with their idea, |
| 1:38.9 | build their product, raise capital, and I found that mentoring side was really for me and so I ended up |
| 1:44.9 | leaving the company after about four four and a half years and launching what |
| 1:49.8 | became boost to see we're basically, now it's evolved into this, but now, you know, we've invested |
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