Jeff Rosen, Founder and VC - Broom Ventures

Angel Scale Biotech: Learn More 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