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Renaissance Technologies (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 46:39 David Rosenthal Howard Morgan would go on to be one of the co-founders of First Round Capital.
- ▶ 48:22 Ben Gilbert What is today a fantastic venture capital firm, first round capital, but you could not name two more different strategies in investing.
- ▶ 56:25 David Rosenthal Fun coda on this, when Howard starts first round a number of years later with Josh Koppelman, Jim of course is
- ▶ 56:41 David Rosenthal The first institutional fund that first round ended up raising was a 50 X on a hundred and twenty five million dollar fund.
- ▶ 56:56 David Rosenthal I think Jim made as much money from his investments in first round as
- ▶ 57:19 David Rosenthal Yeah, it was super fun talking to Howard about this and just the history of how first round started and early Super Angel investing and everything that became.
- ▶ 57:28 Ben Gilbert I also didn't realize that first round's fund one was a 50 x on a hundred and twenty five million dollar fund.
- ▶ 3:08:16 David Rosenthal Other people to thank Howard Morgan, who we spoke to, which was so fun to get a bunch of the first-round history from him, and then, of course, the, you know, founding of Rentech and partnering with Jim and investing in each other's funds…
ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis · Acquired
- ▶ 1:18:00 Jason Calacanis Christopher Alec from First Run, you know, invested in the company.