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1. “I'd start with in college, I spent a lot of time thinking about finance and trading a little bit and really became obsessive with markets broadly. After school, went to work at a hedge fund doing everything from long short on the public side to some derivatives trading to eventually some cross-border private equity as well from Asia to the US and eventually started to do a little bit of seed investing there, which was a little off for 2011 hedge funds doing seed stuff and weren't a ton of people doing it. At that point, really like fell in love with the seed investing stuff. I think that was both intellectually stimulating to me and still had the level of paranoia that public markets brought me, which is there's always someone working harder to destroy you on the other end of a trade. I wanted to understand a startup ecosystem a little bit more. And so I joined a company called CB Insights pretty early on, the company's most well-known for the newsletter, me and this other guy, Matt Wong, would spend all day looking at all the data coming in across private market financings, fundraising, app store rankings, et cetera.”

   2021-02-09 · Invest Like the Best · Michael Dempsey – Investing in Bleeding Edge Technology – [Invest Like the Best, EP.212] · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source