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Tech VC and founder Jeff Rosen talks about his favorite portfolio companies at Broom Ventures and how his fund came about. He also tells a compelling story from his days at Teach For America.

Sponsored by Purdue University entrepreneurship and Peter Fasse, patent attorney at Fish and Richardson.

Highlights:

• Sal Daher Introduces Jeff Rosen of Broom Ventures
• Team, Leadership & Culture
• “...we look particularly closely at the people and try to understand their commitment, their mission orientation, their psychology, their empathy.”
• Broom Portfolio Company Writesonic Helps People Write Really Fast & Effectively
• “It is scary. It's so good that you cannot possibly tell that it wasn't written by a human.”
• “We're quite comfortable investing in in-person teams, distributed teams, international teams. It's the people that matter more than anything else.”
• Broom Portfolio Company Tive: Hardware Trackers & Integrated Software for Supply Chains
• Broom Invested in Tive Just as the Pandemic Was Starting in 2020; Brilliant Move in Retrospect
• Krenar Komoni Is an Outstanding Founder Driving Surprising Growth
• Immigrant Founders and the Superman Effect
• A Conspiracy Theory Debunked
• Listeners, please Leave a Written Review on Apple Podcasts; It Helps Us Get Found
• Jeff Rosen’s Trying Experience in Teach For America
• Jeff Rosen Grew a Beard and Impersonated a Drill Sargent to Get Control of His Classroom
• “There were some extraordinary students in the school despite all of the challenges that they had faced in their lives.”
• Jeff Rosen Started Programing in Middle School be Creating Games for His TI-83 Calculator
• How Jeff Rosen Became a Co-Founder of Rhombus, a Blockchain Infrastructure Company
• Sal Daher Expresses His Skepticism About the Existence of a Compelling Use Case for the Blockchain
• Sal Daher Remains Open to Being Convinced About the Blockchain
• How Jeff Rosen and His Co-Founder Dan Von Kohorn Started Their VC Fund

Topics: co-founders, portfolio