A podcast by 1517 Fund exploring subversive intellectuals, entrepreneurs, and thinkers across society.
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Founders First explores how founders got started, what they did before starting their startups, and how you can go from an idea to a venture-backed company.
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Learn from angel and seed investors bold enough to write the first check. How do they decide which startups to invest in? How do they gain conviction in founders and ideas? How do they add value to their companies? Shaherose Charania and Aamir Virani are operators turned investors. They chat with their friends investing in early-stage technology startups and learn about their strategies to fund the best founders and startup companies. If you are an angel investor or seed investor, you'll hea ...
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14: First checks for dropouts, students, and deep tech sci-fi founders - Danielle Strachman, 1517 Fund
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One day soon when you see a robot squirrel on a 10-foot unicycle, think of Danielle Strachman. These are the types of ideas Danielle Strachman sees and backs on a regular basis at her VC fund, 1517. The fund, which proudly backs “dropouts, students, and sci-fi,” has had several fund multipliers in their portfolio, including Loom (Acquired by Atlass…
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13: Elizabeth Yin of Hustle Fund has seen over 50,000 companies and made 800 investments – usually in just 30 minutes
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Elizabeth Yin realized she had a problem. She wanted to be a founder, but couldn’t think of a problem she wanted to spend decades of her life working on. After soul searching, she remembered the one thing she did care about: helping other founders. She took that passion and turned it into Hustle Fund, which focuses on offering capital, knowledge, a…
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12: First checks building the future of cities since 2012 led to unicorn investments and $215M in AUM - Julie & Clara, Urban Innovation Fund
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An ill-fated business school fashion show led to a venture capital fund with $215 million AUM. The duo met in 2010 at the MIT Sloan School of Management and soon after became research partners investigating why VCs were shunning startups in highly regulated spaces even though AirBnB and Uber were starting to reach venture scale very quickly. Tech-e…
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11: How one of Arian Ghashghai’s virtual reality companies is on track to hit $20M in revenue after one round of funding
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Have you ever played with an Oculus VR headset? You probably owe thanks to Arian Ghashghai. The former founder was working at Meta when someone in his network introduced him to an opportunity to invest in gummies. Yes, gummies. That’s far and away from Arian’s machine learning roots, it’s now one of his best investments to date. Arian has since gon…
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10: How Amit Garg co-founded an AI-first seed fund before AI took off
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Armed with an educational background in computer science and biomedical informatics, Amit Garg switched to venture capital after a long, successful career in the corporate world, which included stints at companies like Google and Samsung. And that’s just the way he never planned it. That’s right, the almost-doctor didn’t intend to get into venture …
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09: Angels of Shopify investing collectively and lessons on following your gut - Atlee Clark, Angel
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What do you get when you mix U.S. national security, angel investing, and kids’ pajamas? Atlee Clark. Proud Canadian Atlee took a hard pivot from the public sector to the tech world, first through a nonprofit called the C100, which supports entrepreneurs, and later at Shopify, focusing on 0 - 1 initiatives. Similar to other angel collectives emergi…
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08 Takeaways: Charles Hudson, Precursor Ventures: macro, team vs market, fund size vs. outcomes
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Join Shaherose & Aamir as we reflect on our conversation with Charles Hudson of Precursor Ventures. Highlights: Don’t forget the macro: Government regulations can lead to massive opportunities or failures. We discuss case studies of companies like Samsara, Movtive (fka KeepTrucking), Republic, and Zum, showing how regulatory shifts led to category-…
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08: From the CIA to Google to 400+ pre-seed investments, first and early to define pre-seed - Charles Hudson, Precursor
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Hailing from Michigan, Charles developed an early obsession with the public markets in high school. Charles Hudson is now the Managing Partner at Precursor Ventures, a pre-seed venture fund that has defined and has become synonymous with “pre-seed”. Charles is known for his ability to identify and mentor early-stage companies that have the potentia…
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07: Angel in 100+ startups, focused on learning and catalyzing mission-first startups - Eric Ries, Creator Lean Startup, Founder, LTSE
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Eric Ries has invested in over 100+ early-stage startups. He is best known as the author of The Lean Startup, a must-read for entrepreneurs worldwide. He also founded the Long-Term Stock Exchange (LTSE), a new stock exchange designed to support companies with long-term goals. He recently launched a new podcast discussing ways to re-think corporate …
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06: Finding Alpha in Texas - Rajiv Bala, Clutch VC
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Rajiv Bala, GP of Clutch VC, a pre-seed and seed-stage fund exclusively investing in Texas. Rajiv is committed and bullish on the region with a hands-on approach to investing, working with founders on product feedback, team building, and more to see initial customer validation before investing. Rajiv also embraces sub $500 million outcomes to drive…
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05: Discovering hidden baseball talent to leading Sales at Stripe all applied to finding outliers in tech - Meka Asonye, First Round Capital
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Meka Asonye, a Partner at First Round Capital, started angel investing in 2018 while working at Stripe and joined First Round in 2021. He has made dozens of Angel investments and 13 Venture investments, and he's just getting started! While he focuses on B2B SAAS, he has not shied away from investing in audacious founders, from modernizing 911 call …
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04: 3x tech founder turned seed VC brings a founder mindset to startup investing - Amit Kumar, Accel
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Amit Kumar, former founder and angel investor, is a generalist venture capitalist at Accel focused on dev tools, healthcare, and fintech startups. Twitter acquired Amit’s third company, and it was then that he realized his true purpose was supporting startup founders, and he shifted to venture capital. Amit shares insightful stories and lessons lea…
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03: Angel vs VC, finding purpose and community in startup investing - Rachel Sheinbein
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Rachel Sheinbein is an angel investor with over 250 startup investments. She shares her insights on angel investing and how it allows her to work with founders “even before the seed stage,” writing $25k checks into technology startups through her vehicle Very Serious Ventures. Later, Rachel discusses how building a community drives her investing st…
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02: 300 startup investments, 500 LPs, sharp elbows - Jenny Fielding, Everywhere Ventures
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Jenny Fielding, a pre-seed investor and angel with 300 early-stage startup investments, discusses investing in FinTech, hard tech, and consumer spaces over the past decade. From studying law to working in finance to leaving it all to found not just one but two startups, Jenny brings a founder-operator mindset to her fund, Everywhere Ventures. She w…
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01: State of Venture Capital 2024 with Arjun Arora
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We're all discussing current market conditions - valuations, AI hype, fundraising challenges... Before we kick off our planned interview series on First Funders, we sat down with our friend Arjun Arora to discuss the Trends in Venture Capital 2024. As investors, we always look ahead, making this a great way to start 2024. Highlights from our discus…
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About the Hosts: How they got into Seed and Angel Investing
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Before you dive into our archives or the next episode, learn about First Funders and its hosts, Shaherose Charania and Aamir Virani. You'll hear about Shaherose's background as a startup builder turned VC who started as a product marketer and how she started Women 2.0, a startup ecosystem, and Founder Labs, a tech incubator. She also reviews her ti…
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Coming Soon - a podcast for Angels and Venture Capitalists who write first checks
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Coming soon. First Funders is a podcast for the Angels and Venture Capitalists who write first checks. Co-hosted by Shaherose Charania, startup builder turned VC. And Aamir Virani, founder turned angel investor. In each episode, you'll hear from angel and seed-stage VCs who wrote the first checks into startups that made it. How did these investors …
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033. $50K Investments in Ideas/R&D: Danielle Talks Invisible College
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The Invisible College is an idea/R&D stage investment program that 1517 is launching this summer and fall to support founders who would rather build than go to school in the fall. To be considered for the Invisible College, you must: * Be in North America * Have at least 1 member of your team with no undergraduate degree * Plan on working full-time…
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032. 1517 at Home: Alex Gladstein on Why Bitcoin Matters for Human Rights.
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Alex Gladstein joins 1517 Fund for a 1517 at Home conversation about how Bitcoin protects human rights, its applications around the world, and the coming death of cash that totalitarian and authoritarian regimes world over want to accelerate. Alex is the Chief Strategy Officer of the Human Rights Foundation and the Oslo Freedom Forum and the co-aut…
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031. 1517 at Home: Ryan Kulp on Fitness for Hackers, Mindset, and Accountability
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Ryan Kulp is a self-taught developer, marketer, musician, founder of Fomo and Fork Equity, and the author of Fitness for Hackers. He joins a live audience of the 1517 Community to discuss how the hacker mindset can be applied to fitness, nutrition, and how he stays accountable to constant learning in his personal development. Mentioned during the c…
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030. 1517 at Home: Samo Burja on Why Civilizations Collapse
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There are at least 12 identifiable Dark Ages in the recorded history of human civilization. Although we are all fascinated with the idea of the collapse of civilization, have we considered why civilizations actually collapse? Join Samo Burja, founder of Bismarck Analytics and research fellow at LongNow, to explore the causes behind civilizational c…
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029. 1517 at Home: Byrne Hobart on the Mimetic Theory of Bubbles
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Why do economic bubbles happen? Historically, theorists have proposed competing theories like the efficient market hypothesis, the easy money theory, and a “heroes and villains” theory. In this workshop and roundtable discussion we explored the mimetic desire theory of bubbles. Based on Rene Girard’s theory of mimetic desire, the mimetic theory of …
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028. Updates! New Podcast, New Channels, New Content Coming Here
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We give some updates for our subscribers on our new podcast, Founders First, what we'll be doing on this podcast soon, and some new distribution channels we have.
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9. Turning Academic Research into Consumer Micro-Greens with Camille Richman (Hamama)
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8. Growing a Facebook Group into a Venture-Backed Business with Dylan Gambardella & Justin Lafazan (Next Gen)
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7. Bringing Software to Senior Care with Cameron Graham (Storii)
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6. Making Home Ownership Possible with Cash Offers (Nick Friedman, Board)
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5. Building Safe Construction Sites & Making Empathetic Sales with Alex Schwarzkopf (Pillar)
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4. Making Alchemy Real with Pavle Jeremic (Aether Biomachines)
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3. Helping People Time Travel with Gaetano Crupi (Cabin)
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2. Eating Algae with Elliot Roth (Spira, Inc.)
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1. How Stephen Balaban Evolved from eBooks to Deep Learning Hardware (Lambda)
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027. Physics for Poets: Frederick Turner on Healing the Divide Between Science and the Arts
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Frederick Turner is a poet, philosopher and the Founders Professor at the University of Texas at Dallas. He has authored more than two dozen poetry books and philosophical treatises. With Genesis and Apocalypse, he revived the epic poem by turning to science fiction and in his research, he has explored the nature of time, cosmology, evolution, and …
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026. Mark Lutter on How and Why to Invent Your Own Charter Cities
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Mark Lutter is the founder and executive director of the Center for Innovative Governance, where he studies, advocates for, and helps build charter cities across the globe. He joins Michael Gibson to discuss what charter cities are, why you would want to start one, how to start one, and what the future of charter cities looks like.Visit medium.com/…
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025. Devon Zuegel on NIMBYism, YIMBYism, and the Life of Great Cities
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Devon Zuegel (@devonzuegel) joins Michael Gibson (@WilliamBlake) to discuss urbanism, the life and death of great cities, NIMBYism vs. YIMBYism, and why cities like San Francisco make it hard to build new housing.Autor: 1517 Fund
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024. Jason Brennan on When You Can Violently Resist the Government
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Jason Brennan joins Michael and Zak for the 23rd installment of Subversion. He is the author of When All Else Fails: The Ethics of Resistance to State Injustice and has a radical conclusion from common-sense principles:The conditions under which you can defend yourself from state actors are exactly the same as the conditions under which you can def…
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023. Balaji Srinivasan on Voice, Exit, and Earning Money Pseudonymously
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Balaji Srinivasan is the CTO of Coinbase and the cofounder of Earn.com (formerly 21.co). He joined the 1517 Fund Assembly in October, 2017 to make the case for escaping the ire of mobs by earning money pseudonymously and living in low cost-of-living regions.You can find a video of his talk on YouTube under "Balaji Srinivasan at the 1517 Assembly."…
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022. Rene Girard, Mimetic Theory, and Christianity with David Gornoski
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David Gornoski is a scholar of Rene Girard and a talk radio host in the Orlando, Florida area. He joins Subversion to discuss what founders and those interested in technology can learn from Rene Girard and Christianity.“By using media to expose unjust persecution of scapegoats, we can build energy to look for alternative solutions to sacrifice. And…
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021. Thiel Fellow Josh Sakhai on Bootstrapping, Raising VC Pre-Launch, and the Value of Media
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Thiel Fellow Josh Sakhai on Funding Pre-Product, Startup Media, and Disappearing TattoosJosh Sakhai is the cofounder and CEO of Ephemeral Tattoos and a 2018 Thiel Fellow. He joins Subversion to discuss how he’s raised millions of dollars before taking his product to market. We also discuss how to fund your company without giving up equity.Some key …
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020. The Truth About Angel Investors with Greg Schroy
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Greg Schroy is an investor with Locke Mountain Ventures and the cofounder of nTopology, a 1517 Fund portfolio company. He joins the podcast to talk about what it's like being an angel investor and how you, as a founder, can do your due diligence on investors.Autor: 1517 Fund
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019. Thiel Fellow Micah Green on Building a Robotics Company and Moving To Austin
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Micah Green is a Thiel Fellow and the founder, CEO, and president of Maidbot. He joins Subversion to talk about what it's like founding a hardware company, selling to Fortune 500 companies, and moving his team to Austin, TX in order to grow the company.Autor: 1517 Fund
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018. Marie Schneegans on Starting a Company in Europe and Doing Business Abroad
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Marie Schneegans is the founder and CEO of Never Eat Alone (NeverEatAlone.io), an app that helps employees meet each other at major companies. She runs her company from Paris, France. Marie joins Subversion to talk about what it's like to start a company in a country typically not known for its startup culture, and how her company does business in …
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017. Joe Thomas of Loom on Building a Consumer Product, Pivoting, Launching on ProductHunt
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Joe Thomas, CEO and co-founder of Loom (useLoom.com) joins Subversion to talk about building a consumer-facing product, pivoting from a totally different kind of product, and how Loom got their first traction by launching on Product Hunt.Autor: 1517 Fund
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016. How to Find Out What People Will Pay For with Shriya Nevatia
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Shriya Nevatia joins Subversion with 1517 to discuss how startups and founders can do customer discovery research and UX research.Shriya studied Computer Science at Tufts University and got into UX Design through Human Factors Engineering, the General Assembly UX Design course, and the social entrepreneurship program Project Breaker. She did UX Res…
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015. Tam Pham on How to Land Your Dream Internship & Network (Even If You Aren't Qualified)
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Tam Pham is the author of two books and a 1517 Community member. He joins Subversion with 1517 to discuss how a young person, even a dropout with no formal credentials, can land their dream internship, can build an influential network, and can overcome a victim mentality.Autor: 1517 Fund
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014. Nick Arnett on Starting in a Technical Industry With Little Expertise
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Nick Arnett, 1517 Fund's Community Partner, joins for Part II of his conversation on getting taken seriously as a young person, starting a highly technical nonprofit without much technical experience, and how to get started outside of the Bay Area.Autor: 1517 Fund
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013. Thiel Fellow Tom Currier on the Future of Regional Transit
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Tom Currier is the cofounder and CEO of Cabin, a solution to long travel times between regional cities. Tom joins the podcast to discuss why American cities don't have great regional transit options and how Cabin is providing a solution.Autor: 1517 Fund
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012. Nick Arnett on Being Taken Seriously as a Young Person & Starting Up in the Midwest
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Nick Arnett is the Community Manager for 1517 Fund and a college opt-out. Nick tells his story of how he got started as a teenager and built an unconventional career. He tells how he got taken seriously as a young person and how to get started when you work in a place like Fort Wayne, Indiana -- definitely not San Francisco or New York City.…
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011. Shastri Mahadeo on Founding a Tech Company with Zero Tech Experience
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Shastri Mahadeo is the cofounder and CEO of Union Crate, a tech company that provides analytics for consumer goods companies. Shastri doesn't have your typical tech founder background, though. He never went to college, started working at 14, became a car technician, owned a nightclub and a restaurant, bribed dirty cops, and started a tea company --…
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010. Max Lock on the Perks of Being a Solo Founder
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Max Lock is the founder and president of Fleet, in Portland, OR. He's a solo founder and makes the case in this conversation that maybe that's the best way to start a company. Max talks about how he makes decisions as a solo founder and some of the advantages - and disadvantages - of going at it alone.…
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