Joshua Baer

Right after graduate school, I had worked with investors, had worked with startups, co-founded my own management consulting firm in the early 2000s.

2000s and had experience in kind of being a founder and an operator as well, that I had this very unique kind of blend of opportunities.

So it isn't that I kind of left everything behind.

I took the jump at an opportunity to do something new.

And I'm grateful to still have great partnerships and great collaborations with, you know, my fellow card carrying chemists and people who are going off and building great companies in that space.

It is exciting to be able to get deep in the weeds and to talk about how things are being made, or to talk about how it is that these molecules are interacting with proteins, if you're talking about sort of the drug therapeutic target, or talking about how this platform could be broadly enabling to do these other kinds of things, or the diagnostic, how this detects things at this level and that level.

It has been, I'm very grateful that I've got that kind of technical expertise to bring it to the diligence of understanding the competitive advantage of these companies, of being able to understand sort of really the founders are trying to move forward and how hard some of these things are in trying to do it more broadly.

I think there's some value for people that are approaching these problems that don't have that kind of technical expertise and team up with the technical expertise.

Uh, within the entrepreneurship side, um, you know, we have VetSun, um, startup, uh, network.

So if you're looking to get in- uh, invested in, in veterans that are trying to build their own businesses and get out of having jobs, uh, you know, which I know was a, a big mission for, uh, the late Joshua Baer.

Yep.

Um, shout out to Capital Factory.

Yeah, Samir Dallakia, John Price, you know, so many different people.

And again, I, you know, shared my experience with, you know, how although Josh Baer and I didn't meet at Trilogy, you know, he was very much known as kind of a, you know, very successful graduate out of the Trilogy experience.

And then, you know, as an entrepreneur, a multi-time entrepreneur, and I had the opportunity to kind of just share experiences.

He just played such a meaningful role in my life, particularly as an early investor in Bizarre Voice, but also then an early investor, like the first investor after Jason Cohen and WP Engine.

It's better.

Joshua Baer was an AI power user.

He was a tech entrepreneur and one of the most outspoken Texas proponents of testing the boundaries of AI.

Baer died in a plane crash in June.

don't know if our politics or our society is ready for this.

But it's coming one way or another.

The late startup champion Joshua Baer agreed.

My personal opinion is this is definitely the most significant thing that's ever happened in my lifetime.

But he's looking good, man.

Josh Baer's looking real good.

And if I'm Legacy, I'm happy with my decision of signing him.

I think that's a decision I'm happy with and a decision that I think everyone in the organization is going to be happy with.