The $25K Uber Bet That Became $135 Million
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Corporate securities lawyer Eric Cox sits down with Joe. From Cooley and Silicon Valley to head counsel at Story Law and NetCapital, where a couple hundred companies have raised around $100 million through equity crowdfunding. The friend who turned $25K into $135 million on Uber, why a third of venture dollars burn on marketing, the $100 truck driver investor, the graphene deal that could change everything, why you can legally bet on sports but not own a startup, and why ownership is the new American dream.
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- One, two. (upbeat music) - Hi, welcome in, my name is Alyssa. - Eric, pleasure to meet you Alyssa. - Eric, welcome to Coffee's with Joe Shelby. - I'm happy to be here. - Amazing, what can I get you to do like coffee, do you like tea, what are we feeling today? - Well, this late in the evening, I'm going to stick with tea. Let's go with a soy matcha latte. A soy matcha latte, I like your style. I love my matcha, so. - Yummy, both. - Oh yes, absolutely. Do you like chocolate by any chance? - Couldn't hurt. - Okay, beautiful, yes, yes, I'm so happy to hear that. Okay, I have an assortment of chocolate here. We've got Dubai chocolate, we've got Lindor. - I live in the Bay Area too long to not go Gary Deli down here at the back. - All right. - Something that's going to see us all caramel for your boy. - Okay, open it up, give it a try. So I hear you are a lawyer, is that right? - No, they don't hold it against me. - Okay, so are you who I call if I get in trouble? - That's exactly wrong. - Oh, for laundering money, no one knows like that. Okay, good, 'cause I don't do that anyway. So we're safe. - You would never, nope, I'm on the corporate side. I help people most of the time acquire and sell businesses. So most of my clients are happy with me and they're not going through two times all the time. - I love that, okay, good. It's a good time in the world right now. How's that doing for you? - Delightful, it's compared right with matcha. - Absolutely, let's bring you over to Joe, come on. - Thanks, listen. - Absolutely, come on over. - Joe, we have Eric here. - Eric, Joe, it's for coming now, I know it wasn't much of a driver right here in Irvine, but I appreciate you coming. - I know, sometimes it takes things like this to meet your neighbors, so thanks for having me. - You first got to take our list out of our chocolate today. - Oh, yeah, oh, everybody's passing.
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