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Most Entertaining Investor Interview Ever: Chris Sacca by Jason Calacanis

Chris Sacca of Lowercase Capital is an investor in several well known US consumer web, mobile, and wireless technology startups like Twitter, Kickstarter, Uber, etc. A lawyer by education, he earlier worked at Google. Highlights:   Personal story Amazing story of how he lost millions in leveraged trading and how he clawed his way back. "Fake it till you make it": Highly entertaining story about how, when he was out of job, he created a fake management consulting company, The Salinger Group, and handed out its card at various networking forums (including TiE). He even offered to let his friends who were also out of jobs to use the company's name! On Entrepreneurs  Truly Disruptive Entrepreneurs: Failure is not part of the options for them. They never doubt the outcome. They just think "the world will be a better place if this product gets built". "If I'm the one asking the entrepreneur 'how can this be bigger', then...