Max Altschuler

Started a social media company strictly to make American money while living abroad.

Took it to Costa Rica and Nicaragua for a couple months.

This was last call.

Yeah, and then parlayed that into the Udemy job.

Yeah, exactly.

You know, I like going the self-funded route.

I don't want to take on money if I don't have to.

The conference business does very well with

without ever having to take on any money.

I've made, let's see, probably 20 or so investments now.

Name your favorite three.

Favorite three.

Uh, there's a really interesting one that's completely outside of what I, what I normally invest in.

It's called transcend lighting.

They do, um, special led lighting for, uh, grow rooms and vertical farming.

And so obviously with all the, um, all the new States that are legalizing marijuana and all that stuff, uh, that's going pretty well, but the sales space,

In the sales space, troops.ai.

Yep.

No, I'm putting, I'm putting less than that.

I'm doing like 10 or 20 K checks in, um, in the earliest round I can get in, like preferably like a three to $6 million valuation.