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Ezra Galston

6 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 17, 2015 by Ezra Galston · said 10 times in 2 episodes since 2015 · across every show →

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Aug 17, 2015
Disclosure
Galston cold-emailed VCs a mapped relationship graph of his gaming network
“What I did is I created like this interest or this relationship graph where I put myself in the middle and I put all the different players in the gaming world around me and showed who I knew, like what executive level, how like the relationships developed. And…”
Ezra Galston Aug 17, 2015 ▶ 19:34 20 VC 063: What It Takes To Standout In A Crowded Market with Ezra Galston @ Chicago Ventures
Aug 17, 2015 bullish
Disclosure
Chicago Ventures invested in Attendant, a death and funeral tech startup
“And the other is a company called attendant. So I guess the latter was probably more recent. So attendant is a company that's building a suite of tools for the death and funeral industry. So we spoke about differentiation earlier. So I invested in that one bec…”
Ezra Galston Aug 17, 2015 ▶ 25:28 20 VC 063: What It Takes To Standout In A Crowded Market with Ezra Galston @ Chicago Ventures
Aug 17, 2015 bullish
Prediction Held up
Galston predicts in 2015 that Bitcoin will succeed long-term
“I love Bitcoin. I've spent a lot of time looking into it. You know, I'll take Ben Horowitz's side of the Felix Salmon bet. I think it'll fly long term.”
Ezra Galston Aug 17, 2015 ▶ 21:56 20 VC 063: What It Takes To Standout In A Crowded Market with Ezra Galston @ Chicago Ventures
Aug 17, 2015
Disclosure
Galston funded his first angel investments using professional poker earnings
“I'd taken a lot of the money that I had from the poker world, and a lot of my friends, as they kind of churned out from the world of professional poker, they would start up companies, and I invested in some of them.”
Ezra Galston Aug 17, 2015 ▶ 6:04 20 VC 063: What It Takes To Standout In A Crowded Market with Ezra Galston @ Chicago Ventures
Aug 17, 2015 bearish
Opinion
Galston rates Etsy stock between a sell and hold at $1.6B
“So I actually just looked it up. It's basically at 1.6 billion, which is where it kind of went out. I'd say somewhere between a sell and a hold.”
Ezra Galston Aug 17, 2015 ▶ 22:53 20 VC 063: What It Takes To Standout In A Crowded Market with Ezra Galston @ Chicago Ventures
Aug 17, 2015
Disclosure
Galston broke into venture capital without a network or sending resumes
“I never sent a resume to a single VC and I had no network.”
Ezra Galston Aug 17, 2015 ▶ 19:18 20 VC 063: What It Takes To Standout In A Crowded Market with Ezra Galston @ Chicago Ventures
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