Brett Hurt
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He was the CTO of HomeAway before.
It's been a real joy to mentor him and really just awesome to see how well that company is doing.
And they're also a proud B Corp.
When we became a B Corp in Austin, there were six companies that followed us and made that move.
And I know they did because I talked with their CEOs about it when we made that move and they asked me, why are we doing this?
I really believe that's the next stage of capitalism, capitalism 2.0.
I've got to say that it is becoming very quickly GitHub Copilot.
just because the way it leverages OpenAI's codecs and the way it's lifting all of our productivity on the engineering side, which is, as you know, a very high cost part of any business, and it's turning our engineers into superpowers.
So I love that technology.
Married for 27 years.
And my wife is my investing partner.
We've invested in over 130 startups in the past 12 years.
We're in 40 VC funds as well.
So we have our own family office, as you mentioned at the top.
And we have two kids.
Our daughter is 18 and she's going off to Tulane University in the fall.
That was her dream school.
And our son is 13.
We have his bar mitzvah in Israel this year in June, which we can't wait for.
Oh, gosh.