“Great founders never stop recruiting.” — Dave Eisenberg
Dave Eisenberg (@Eisenberg) is Founding Partner at Zigg Capital, a venture capital firm investing in real estate and construction technology. Before founding Zigg, Dave spent twelve years as an operator at Bonobos, TellApart, Floored, and CBRE. He started his career at Bain & Company, then moved on to found Red Swan Ventures.
To listen to Dave’s bonus interview and learn more about his habits, routines, and inspirations,, click here.
For more, explore the transcript of this episode.
Chapters in Part 1 of this interview:
- Dave’s background and founding Zigg Capital
- Lessons about the Chief of Staff role
- A long-term view of early investments
- Investing in talent
- Considerations when creating the cap table
- Innovations in technology for real estate, retail, and healthcare
- The future of physical retail
- Investing in automation
Links from Part 1
- Connect with Dave Eisenberg: Twitter | LinkedIn | Zigg Capital
- Bain & Company
- Office Space
- Zero-defect models
- Bonobos
- Andy Dunn
- Greylock
- Josh McFarland
- Amazon
- Warby Parker
- Wharton School
- Matterport
- RedSwan
- Excel Venture Management
- Floored
- WeWork
- Adam Neumann
- CBRE
- Ribbit Capital
- Ziggurat
- Tower of Babel
- "Touchy-Feely" class at Stanford Business School
- Turo
- Procore
- Bessemer Venture Partners
- Jeremy Levine
- Fred Wilson
- Peter Fenton
- Marc Andreessen
- Ben Horowitz
- Snapdocs
- Coinbase
- Bitcoin
- Ethereum
- Bill Gurley
- Uber
- DOMA
- Opendoor
- Tend
- Built
- Loft
- Bravecare
- One Medical
- CAMP
- Latch
- OpenSpace
Books Recommended by Dave Eisenberg
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz
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