Matt Bigge | Venture Capital Podcast | Crosslink Capital

The Opportunities that lie outside the edge of possibility!

In this weeks podcast Ken Forster interviews Matt Bigge, a Partner at Crosslink Capital, focused on venture investments in enterprise and industrial IT infrastructure security and what they call 'plausible science fiction'.

Matt is an entrepreneur and investor with over two decades of successful general management and venture investing experience, including numerous winning investments. Prior to joining Crosslink, Matt was a venture partner with Paladin Capital, he was also the CEO and co-founder of Strategic Social Holdings which was acquired by Constellis Group. Matt was a co-founder and president of MILCOM Technologies where he led the acquisition and commercialization of over two billion of R&D used to create over 10 product companies. 

Some of the discussion points during this interview:

• What inspired your transition from military service into ventures?
• Who is Crosslink Capital and what do you mean by ‘plausible science fiction’?
• How do you scale your investments?
• Is Silicon Valley still a good place to start and grow a technology business?
• What is the impact of SPACs going to be on Venture Capital investing?
  
  

Matt recommends the following books:

• "Atlas Shrugged" 
• "The Godfather" 
• "Glengarry Glen Ross" - It is about people being people and how to understand what motivates them and makes them do different things. 
• "Anything" by Neil Stephenson 
• "The Hitchhikers guide" by Douglas Adams - Valuable to understand the ripple effect of decisions.    

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