Micah Rosenbloom, Founder Collective Managing Partner, & Former Brontes COO, on Building & Selling a Company to 3M, Going From COO to VC, Making Investments via Zoom, & Hiring the Right People

Before Micah Rosenbloom was a venture capitalist, he was the co-founder and COO of Brontes Technologies, which he sold to 3M. Micah and his business partner Eric then went on to found the VC firm, Founder Collective, which has made investments in companies like Uber, ThreadUp, Hotels Tonight, Venmo, PillPack, and more. Micah joins us to discuss deciding who's CEO and COO, not shying away from tough conversations, hiring the right people, founding a VC firm and introducing ops to it, going through a transaction to a major corporation, the downside of making investments via Zoom, and how to identify investors that have true conviction in your company. Fred Wilson's post on working multiple jobs: https://avc.com/2021/10/working-multiple-jobs/Founder Collective: foundercollective.comMicah Rosenbloom on Twitter: https://twitter.com/micahjay1Micah Rosenbloom on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/micah-rosenbloom-a0350/Eric Paley: https://twitter.com/epaley/Raj De Datta: https://twitter.com/rdedattaScott Belsky: https://twitter.com/scottbelskyBill Tranchard: https://twitter.com/btrenchardChris Dixon: https://twitter.com/cdixonJames Tamplin: https://twitter.com/jamestamplinDave Frankel: https://twitter.com/dafrankelMichael Koenig on LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mkoenig514 Michael Koenig on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mkoenig