Andy Bartlett, PhD - The Fun in Angel Investing

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My Walnut buddy Andy Bartlett, PhD brings great energy to the group and an expert’s perspective on computing. We talked about our favorite startups including Savran Technologies, evTS, and BioFeyn. He has interesting things to say about ChatGPT. We also had a great chat about his angel journey.

 

Sponsored by Purdue University entrepreneurship and Peter Fasse, patent attorney at Fish and Richardson.

 

Highlights:

• Sal Daher Introduces Andy Bartlett
• Savran Technologies
• "... three of the things I really love to see in startups is a founder like Çağrı that will go through walls, that's so important. Defensibility that they have a moat, so the strong patent portfolio..."
• evTS
• BioFeyn
• "... We're talking about the University of Illinois Gies School of Business. I'm so impressed with the way the faculty is running that business school. They're running it like a disruptive business..."
• "... They've gone ahead and they've kept this very affordable. The full program, it's 18 classes plus three capstones costs about $23,000 total..."
• Andy's Entrepreneurial Background
• "... My mother's family had entrepreneurship. My great-grandfather, Alonzo Dodge, started a Dodge Moving and storage company. I always thought my grandfather had founded it, but actually, it was his father. They always ran that. That was the family business..."
• "... Eventually, I got my way into the electrical engineering department and I've embraced that for years and years..."
• "... At Chrysler, I could draw a block diagram to model some algorithm I wanted to use for onboard diagnostic testing of the Chrysler vehicles. I could model it. I could simulate it. I could pull down a menu and immediately generate code that would run on a computer in the backseat of a test car. I would drive around and I could do my experiments and collect my data..."
• Andy's Opinion on ChatGPT

 

 

Topics: angel investing strategies, biotech, discovering entrepreneurship