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Joe Colopy

Founder of Bronto Software (sold to NetSuite for $200M in 2015); now a Durham, NC tech investor running Colopy Ventures, Primordial Ventures, and Jurassic Capital.

Nov 4, 2026

17:38
So that still could have been, but I'm sure you learned something there that helped you with Bronto.
17:43
Oh, definitely.
17:44
At the very, very early stages, the Joe hat that I need to put on was Joe, the product maker, the developer, because I was really just by myself and I needed to create something.
17:54
And one of the advantages of doing software over the internet, it really, you could create a product, not well, that was really one person that was sharp, that could nicely design a web application.
18:05
That's It's a lot more that goes into it, but a very small scale.
18:08
You could pull that off.
18:10
There's no real capital other than your time and your mind.

22 MINS LATER

40:37
So kind of thinking through all that, were you actively trying to sell or was it a conversation with the folks at NetSuite? And then you started thinking about it and having a discussion with your partner.

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