In L.A., people trust one guy with their pricey supercars
A lot of founders start companies because they want to build. Others start them because they get tired of waiting around inside systems they don’t control. Elrod sounds like the second kind.
Amy Cosper
Entrepreneur, Seeker, Vagabond
For a stretch of time he lived in a converted Volkswagen bus parked on the beach in Tulum. Everything he owned fit inside the van and he smiles as he remembers it as one of the most liberating periods of his life. “It was the freedom of not having anything.”
The Good Pizza guy
“I went to investors,” he says. “No, no, no, no, no. Always no.”
At the time, he thought they were wrong.
“I said, what asshole, all these people,” he says, laughing.
The outlook for entrepreneurship? Pretty damn good
I could have been an asshole, but I started a business instead. I mean, the guy left Amazon on a Friday and started a business the following Monday.
AI has no editorial judgement. None. Zero. Zilch.
Maybe keep a human between the machine and the "hit publish" function. Just a thought.
Women founders and the question of capital
Women-led startups produced seventy-eight cents in revenue for every dollar of funding, compared with thirty-one cents generated by male-founded companies. In venture capital terms, that kind of capital efficiency usually earns admiration.
Don't look back! Innovation vs nostalgia.
I never thought of Gainesville as an entrepreneurial hub or really anything more than a football school. I was wrong. It's a major center for biotech, agtech, and AI.