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2 Aug 2022 Acquired From NFL to Startup COO to Congressman Regulating Crypto (with Rep. Anthony Gonzalez)

“I think I'm still trying to work through, do I want to be an investor or do I want to be an operator?”

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Speaker unverified
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uncertainty
Recorded
2 Aug 2022
Publisher
Acquired

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…Anthony, on a closing note, let's bring it back to you personally a little bit. You're not running in the next election, so what do you think the future holds for you as you focus on the next chapter of your life? It's a good question. Admittedly, my primary focus is finishing strong. I have a handful of pieces of legislation that I'm still pushing, that I'm hopeful we can get across the finish line. That's the primary focus. But I am starting to kind of go through my notes again, and reread my business school notebooks, and go through experiences. I keep notebooks at all times. It's kind of fun to go through and relive some of those experiences, building businesses, but also in business school. I think I'm still trying to work through, do I want to be an investor or do I want to be an operator? I've done operating and I enjoy it. I enjoyed the heck out of building our campaign team, which is a startup in a way, and I enjoyed the investment side. For me, what I'm trying to figure out is, who in my life do I admire and what kind of businesses do I want to build? I think of the IGSB model, and I just think it's fundamentally an incredible model. The success is outrageous. For those of you who listen to the Altos Acquired episode, it's probably most similar to that. It's a truly incredible story. It's called the investment group of Santa Barbara, but it also came out of Stanford GSB. Really, just two folks and a very small handful of people over 50 years have compounded at numbers that are unbelievable.…

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