Ep. 535: Brad Rotter Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Bradley Rotter, a visionary investor who has pioneered investment in many new alternative investments classes beginning with Hedge Funds in 1982 while speculating on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. He traded Government Bonds for EF Hutton on Wall Street before returning to Chicago to the Board of Trade. Bradley moved to San Francisco in mid 80's to be close to the technology fountainhead of the Bay Area. He is best known for famous quote in 1995 "this internet thing is going to be big". Bradley was awarded the Investor Dealers Digest Private Deal of the Year Award in 1996 for an innovative securitization which precede an IPO on Nasdaq Bradley has made numerous VC and PE investments, with a particular focus on internet and technology and spanning from hedge funds to satellites.

The topic is Bitcoin and Venture Capital.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Venture capitalism
Turtles
Efficient market theory
Mobile infrastructure
Desalination

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I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

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0:00.0	This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.
0:10.9	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:21.2	I am your host, Michael Covel.
0:24.0	Not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:32.9	My guest today is Brad Rotter.
0:35.7	Brad has appeared on my show before,
0:40.6	and I am always grateful for his reappearance.
0:42.7	Brad is an investor.
0:44.6	He's a venture capitalist.
0:53.6	Very well known, at least in my circles, for being perhaps the first investor with Richard Dennis. one of the very first investors, if not the
0:56.6	first with many of the turtle traders back in the day. And as a venture capitalist, Brad has
1:02.2	helped launch multiple new enterprises. Today, our conversation puts you into the mind
1:09.2	of a venture capitalist. How does one think about a new
1:13.4	opportunity? And the new opportunity that Brad and I talk about today is not so new, or at least
1:20.6	you might not think it's so new. That opportunity, water. I hope you enjoy this conversation with Brad Rotter.
1:40.3	Brad, it's good to have you back on again.
1:42.7	We've covered a lot of territory in our prior calls and conversations.
1:48.5	I would like for you to dig in a little bit because we've got to go wide here today,
1:52.0	but I would love for you to kind of lay out as a guy who has been in the venture capital space for a long time,
1:58.0	as a guy who is pretty well known as being one of the original investors in the
2:03.7	alternative investment management space. I mean, for example, Richard Dennis, Tom Shanks,
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