Brad Gerstner
Brad Gerstner is an American investor and venture capitalist who serves as the founder, chairman, and CEO of Altimeter Capital, a technology investment firm managing public and private market portfolios. He is the founder and chairman of the Invest America Foundation, a nonprofit organization that helped advance federal legislation creating tax-advantaged investment accounts for children born in the United States. He is also known for co-hosting the BG2Pod podcast alongside venture capitalist Bill Gurley and for early investments in companies including Snowflake, Google, and Nvidia.
“From the beginning, we were never building a program. We were building a platform. We want to have a universal infrastructure of capital accounts for every citizen in the country.”
Source→“We have 9 million accounts today, which makes it one of the largest programs in the history of the federal government... We're going to expand it to 70 million accounts within the next month.”
Source→“The hardest movement in life is from zero to one. It's getting into the game. It's overcoming the cold start problem.”
Source→“He picks up the phone. He calls the Speaker of the House. He said, get it in the bill.”
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