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Brad Feld: Processing emotional issues comfortably makes him a more effective investor
“I think the ability to process that stuff in a way that is comfortable for me makes me a much more effective investor.”
Brad Feld: First major depressive episode lasted two years in mid-twenties
“I had my first major depressive episode when I was running my first company in my mid-twenties, and it was triggered by three things happening at the same time. The first was I ended up getting divorced from my first wife. Our relationship blew up. The second …”
Foundry Group averages ten investments per year since 2007
“At Foundry Group, we've had a strategy of always invest at roughly the same cadence all the time. So we make about 10 new investments a year, and we've been making about 10 new investments a year since 2007 when we started Foundry.”
Foundry Group initially passed on Fitbit before investing
“In the case of Fitbit it, like a number of other companies that we were investors in, you know, several which are very successful, are good examples of companies that we initially passed on, and then, you know, six or 12 months later made an investment.”
Brad Feld's first startup returned 70 cents on the dollar
“Very first company was a company called Martingale software, which I started with a handful of fraternity brothers to write software for the Mac when the Apple Mac was just coming out, 1983, 1984, and the end result was we made almost no progress building any …”