Brett Martin: Lessons on Failure

Danielle Newnham Podcast

Today’s guest is founder and VC Brett Martin who I first started following ten years ago when we were both in the mobile space.

Brett is currently Co-Founder of Kumospace and co-founder of Charge Ventures. Kumospace is a venture backed virtual office space platform that provides immersive and interactive virtual spaces for hosting team meetings, and social gatherings. Charge Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York that invests in pre-seed to seed early stage tech startups.

In this episode of the podcast, we discuss Brett’s first taste of business as a kid, what lessons he learned about entrepreneurship from sailing 6,000 miles on a 50 year old, 30 foot sailboat which involved dodging water spouts, pirates and drug runners, what it felt like to shut down his first proper startup, and what he looks for in the founders he invests in.

Apologies that this is a shorter than normal episode but Brett and I spent some time catching up before we got started so I will have to get him back on the show another time.

But saying that, this was a fun episode with someone who has done it all, so please enjoy my conversation with Brett Martin.

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Mentioned in this episode:

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Scar Tissue by Brett Martin

On Giving Up by Adam Phillips