026 Silicon Valley Legend Steve Hoffman part 1

026 Silicon Valley Legend Steve Hoffman part 1

On today’s show, we are happy to have Steve Hoffman, or Captain Hoff as he’s called in Silicon Valley. Steve is the CEO of Founders Space, one of the world’s leading incubators and accelerators. He’s also an angel investor, limited partner at August Capital, serial entrepreneur, and author of Make Elephants Fly, the award-winning book on radical innovation.

Always innovating on his life, Captain Hoff has tried more professions than cats have lives, including serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, angel investor, studio head, computer engineer, filmmaker, Hollywood TV exec, published author, coder, game designer, manga rewriter, animator and voice actor.

Steve was the Founder and Chairman of the Producers Guild Silicon Valley Chapter, Board of Governors of the New Media Council, and founding member of the Academy of Television’s Interactive Media Group.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

  • How important is having cutting technology and having a successful startup?
  • What are the different roles the founding members of a startup should have?
  • What traits do successful entrepreneurs have?
  • Is it always a good thing for a startup to have raised a lot of money?

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