Max Altschuler

To all of our attendees and then sponsors cover the cost.

Um, and hopefully everybody gets value, you know, all the way around.

Yeah.

Private equity in VC is not my world.

I built a supply side of a marketplace called Udemy.

Um, so took them through their A and B rounds.

Uh, they most recently raised, I think like 120 million in series D pretty big company now, but, um,

That's kind of where I cut my teeth as far as Southern Valley goes.

I started two companies before that.

Both were great learning experiences, but didn't

go, you know, where I would have liked it.

I'm glad the first one failed.

It was a bike share program would have been the first one in America.

Like you see the city bikes everywhere now.

We were trying to do that at Arizona state university made a lot of sense would have been a headache.

Um, and nobody was giving two 22 year olds, um, a couple of million bucks in 2000, you know, 2008, 2009 after the, uh, market crash.

So, uh, especially for, uh,

for a manufacturing business.

We had a manufacturer of bike racks.

So that didn't work out.